Silencing Race

1. Introduction: Racial (Dis)Harmony in Puerto Rico
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva

Part I. Slavery and the Multiracial, Racially Mixed Laboring Classes

2. Becoming a Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva

3. Liberal Elites’ Writings
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva

4. Race and the Modernization of Ponce after Slavery
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva

Part II. Changing Empires

5. US Rule and the Volatile Topic of Race in the Public Political Sphere
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva

6. Racial Silencing and the Organizing of Puerto Rican Labor
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva

7. Deflecting Puerto Rican Blackness
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva

8. Conclusion: The Heavy Weight of Silence
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva

Keywords: History, History of the Americas, Social Policy, Ethnicity Studies, Political Sociology, Latin American Culture, US History