Tag: Puerto Rico

  • Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…

  • Ciphering Nations: Performing Identity in Brazil and the Caribbean   University of Minnesota June 2011 197 pages Naomi Pueo Wood, Assistant Professor of Spanish The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF…

  • According to official census results, the Puerto Rican population became significantly whiter in the first half of the twentieth century. Social scientists have long speculated about the source of this trend, but until now, available data did not permit competing hypotheses of Puerto Rico’s whitening to be evaluated empirically. This article revisits the question of…

  • Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2011-06-14 145 pages Maritza Quiñones-Rivera A Dissertation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In my dissertation I discuss how blackness, femaleness…

  • Puerto Rico: Afro-Caribbean and Taíno Identity Repeating Islands: News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts 2011-06-26 Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York Note from Steven F. Riley:  [The number of 2010 census repondents from Puerto Rico identifiying as two or more races…

  • PRico sees increase in blacks, American Indians The Seattle Times 2011-03-31 Danica Coto Associated Press The number of Puerto Ricans identifying themselves solely as black or American Indian jumped about 50 percent in the last decade, according to new census figures that have surprised experts and islanders alike. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The number of Puerto…

  • The mulatta, the bishop, and dances in the Cathedral: race, music, and power relations in seventeenth-century Puerto Rico Black Music Research Journal Volume 26, Number 2 (Fall, 2006) pages 137-164 Noel Allende-Goitía, Professor of Music Universidad Interamericano de Puerto Rico, San Germán At the beginning of the twentieth century, Cayetano Coll y Toste, a Puerto…

  • The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries Palgrave Macmillan January 2005 176 pages Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 1-4039-6708-3 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-6563-3 Edited by: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature University of California, San Diego The Masters and the Slaves theorizes the interface of plantation relations…