{"id":61995,"date":"2021-10-29T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61995"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:34:36","slug":"beyond-blanqueamiento-black-affirmation-in-contemporary-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61995","title":{"rendered":"Beyond blanqueamiento: black affirmation in contemporary Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17442222.2018.1466646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Beyond <\/strong><\/em><strong>blanqueamiento<\/strong><em><strong>: black affirmation in contemporary Puerto Rico<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rlac20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rlac20\/13\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 13, 2018 &#8211; Issue 2<\/a><br \/>\npages 157-178<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17442222.2018.1466646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/17442222.2018.1466646<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soc-anth\/meet\/hilda-llorens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hilda Llor\u00e9ns<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Rhode Island<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17442222.2018.1466646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/action\/showCoverImage?doi=10.1080\/rlac20.v013.i02\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If, according to turn-of-the-twentieth-century observers, black Puerto Ricans were destined to become racially white in a few generations, how did 12.4 per cent of the population manage to remain black in 2010? And how did they survive in the face of both national and everyday forms of racism? How is the persistence and even increase in black identity in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Puerto Rico<\/a> supported? This article argues that there is a covert and largely unexplored social current at work in regard to how black Puerto Ricans live and reproduce their blackness. This is the desire to maintain and celebrate blackness. Using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethnography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethnographic<\/a> data gathered during nearly two decades, the article illustrate that many Puerto Ricans have chosen not to engage in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blanqueamiento\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>blanqueamiento<\/em><\/a>, instead affirming their blackness, marrying within their communities, and valuing their own cultural practices and beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soc-anth\/meet\/hilda-llorens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using ethnographic data gathered during nearly two decades, the article illustrate that many Puerto Ricans have chosen not to engage in blanqueamiento, instead affirming their blackness, marrying within their communities, and valuing their own cultural practices and beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,8,394,20],"tags":[32229,30871,1039,2654],"class_list":["post-61995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-blanqueamiento","tag-hilda-llorens","tag-latin-american-and-caribbean-ethnic-studies","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61997,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61995\/revisions\/61997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}