Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Racial (Dis)Harmony in Puerto Rico

I. Slavery and the Multiracial, Racially Mixed Laboring Classes
1. Becoming a Free Worker in Post-Emancipation Puerto Rico
2. Liberal Elites’ Writings: The Racial Dissection of the Puerto Rican Specimen
3. Race and the Modernization of Ponce after Slavery

II. Changing Empires
4. US Rule and the Volatile Topic of Race in the Public Political Sphere
5. Racial Silencing and the Organizing of Puerto Rican Labor
6. Deflecting Puerto Rico’s Blackness

Conclusion: The Heavy Weight of Silence
Notes
Bibliography
Index