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Whiteness In Puerto Rico: Translation at a Loss de Guillermo Rebollo Gil

Whiteness In Puerto Rico: Translation at a Loss

Autor Guillermo Rebollo Gil
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iul 2023
Using autoethnography to examine the social construction of whiteness in Puerto Rico. Guillermo Rebollo Gil draws from artistic, activist and popular culture registers to examine the multifarious yet often subtle ways race privilege shapes and informs daily life in the Puerto Rican archipelago. Cross-disciplinary in approach, Whiteness in Puerto Rico speaks to the present political moment in a country marked by austerity, disaster capitalism and protest.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780755635504
ISBN-10: 0755635507
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Puerto Rico, as an unincorporated territory of the US, is at the center of both mainstream and academic debates regarding disaster capitalism, democracy and social movements, migration, and decolonization

Notă biografică

Guillermo Rebollo Gil is a writer, sociologist, translator, and attorney. He is the author of several academic, poetry and creative non-fiction books, in both English and Spanish, including Writing Puerto Rico: Our Decolonial Moment (2018).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements1. A Noose2. White Privilege en español3. A Small Book4. Dedication5. A Problem6. How Blanquitos Belong7. Scandal8. Scandal, too9. Assorted Lessons on and around White Privilege in Puerto Rico10. Whiteness for the Rest of US11. The Ugliness of Whiteness: Three Variations12. Two Poems13. How Blanquitos Belong, a Reprise14. Black Lives Matter en español15. Go Home16. Erasure17. For Life18. Translation at a Loss19. Ransacked20. On Audacity21. A Modest Proposal for White Antiracism in Puerto Rico22. To Resist and Rescind23. Sons of MaríaReferencesIndex

Recenzii

Guillermo Rebollo-Gil's Whiteness in Puerto Rico is a remarkable reflection on the hegemonic, but not monolithic, power of whiteness in Puerto Rico. Clear, crisp, and beautifully written, Rebollo-Gil's auto-ethnography achieves a level of creativity, honesty, and intimacy that is rare, refreshing, and admirable, without ever falling on trite anti-racist posturing. Mandatory reading for anyone interested in understanding how white privilege operates in so-called "racial democracies," and developing effective anti-racist collective projects in Puerto Rico and beyond.
The category blanquito in Puerto Rico means more than just whiteness. It refers to a specific form of embodied white privilege that combines race, class, (colonial)power, place and even language. As a blanquito himself (or born and raised as one) and an experienced narrator, the author skillfully uses his own biography, complemented with interviews and recent historical events, to show us how blanquitos happen, how they learn to be and behave, how they stay in power and how they help perpetuate racism. Rebollo Gil has given us a highly engaging book that should be read by anyone interested in the use of autoethnography to tackle difficult questions and understand contemporary social issues.
Whiteness rules best in silence. In this important collection of essays, Professor Rebollo Gil cracks its rule by discussing how blanquitos (rich white folks) in Puerto Rico deploy their whiteness in a variety of ways and spaces. His interrogation comes from a deep place as he is himself a blanquito. This book deserves serious attention as it unveils a face of whiteness in a self-proclaimed racial paradise.