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The Resource The lettered barriada : workers, archival power, and the politics of knowledge in Puerto Rico, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

The lettered barriada : workers, archival power, and the politics of knowledge in Puerto Rico, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

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"In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-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. Meléndez-Badillo shows how those workers produced, negotiated, and deployed powerful discourses that eventually shaped Puerto Rico's national mythology. By following those ragtag intellectuals as they became politicians and statesmen, Meléndez-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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eng
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Extent
xiii, 261 pages
Contents
  • Words as bricks and pages as mortar : building the lettered barriada
  • The workshop is our homeland : global communities, local exclusions
  • In the margins of the margin : workingwomen and their struggle for remembrance
  • Becoming politicians : the Socialist Party and the politics of legitimation
  • Strike against labor : the 1933 student mobilizations
  • Minor theft : consolidating the barriada's ideational archive
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9781478013853
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The lettered barriada : workers, archival power, and the politics of knowledge in Puerto Rico
Title
The lettered barriada
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workers, archival power, and the politics of knowledge in Puerto Rico
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Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
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Language
eng
Summary
"In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-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. Meléndez-Badillo shows how those workers produced, negotiated, and deployed powerful discourses that eventually shaped Puerto Rico's national mythology. By following those ragtag intellectuals as they became politicians and statesmen, Meléndez-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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Meléndez Badillo, Jorell A.,
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non fiction
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  • Partido Socialista (P.R.)
  • Working class
  • Labor movement
  • Press, Labor
  • Press and politics
  • Intellectuals
  • Puerto Rico
  • Puerto Rico
  • HISTORY / Latin America / General
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
  • Partido Socialista (P.R.)
  • Historiography
  • Intellectuals
  • Labor movement
  • Politics and government
  • Press and politics
  • Press, Labor
  • Working class
  • Puerto Rico
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The lettered barriada : workers, archival power, and the politics of knowledge in Puerto Rico, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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rdacarrier
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  • text
  • still image
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  • txt
  • sti
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  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Words as bricks and pages as mortar : building the lettered barriada -- The workshop is our homeland : global communities, local exclusions -- In the margins of the margin : workingwomen and their struggle for remembrance -- Becoming politicians : the Socialist Party and the politics of legitimation -- Strike against labor : the 1933 student mobilizations -- Minor theft : consolidating the barriada's ideational archive
Control code
1240414391
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xiii, 261 pages
Isbn
9781478013853
Lccn
2021002275
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1240414391
Label
The lettered barriada : workers, archival power, and the politics of knowledge in Puerto Rico, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Words as bricks and pages as mortar : building the lettered barriada -- The workshop is our homeland : global communities, local exclusions -- In the margins of the margin : workingwomen and their struggle for remembrance -- Becoming politicians : the Socialist Party and the politics of legitimation -- Strike against labor : the 1933 student mobilizations -- Minor theft : consolidating the barriada's ideational archive
Control code
1240414391
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xiii, 261 pages
Isbn
9781478013853
Lccn
2021002275
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1240414391

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