Melendez-Badillo Jorell A. Melendez-Badillo

Lettered Barriada (eBook, PDF)

Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Melendez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerged out of the 1898 US occupation. They did so by asserting themselves as citizens, producers of their own historical narratives, and learned minds. Disregarded by most of Puerto Rico's intellectual elite, these workers engaged in dialogue with international peers and imagined themselves as part of a global community. They also entered the world of politics through the creation of the Socialist Party, which became an electoral force in the first half of the twentieth century. Melendez-Badillo shows how these workers produced, negotiated, and deployed powerful discourses that eventually shaped Puerto Rico's national mythology. By following these ragtag intellectuals as they became politicians and statesmen, Melendez-Badillo also demonstrates how they engaged in racial and gender silencing, epistemic violence, and historical erasures in the fringes of society. Ultimately, The Lettered Barriada is about the politics of knowledge production and the tensions between working-class intellectuals and the state.Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478022091
• Artikelnr.: 66282732

Autorenporträt

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Words as Bricks and Pages as Mortar: Building the Lettered Barriada  25
2. The Workshop Is Our Homeland: Global Communities, Local Exclusions  54
3. In the Margins of the Margin: Workingwomen and Their Struggle for
Remembrance  82
4. Becoming Politicians: The Socialist Party and the Politics of
Legitimation  108
5. Strike against Labor: The 1933 Student Mobilizations  134
6. Minor Theft: Consolidating the Barriada's Ideational Archive  156
Epilogue  180
Notes  191
Bibliography  221
Index  251