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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.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
1. A Noose
2. White Privilege en español
3. A Small Book
4. Dedication
5. A Problem
6. How Blanquitos Belong
7. Scandal
8. Scandal, too
9. Assorted Lessons on and around White Privilege in Puerto Rico
10. Whiteness for the Rest of US
11. The Ugliness of Whiteness: Three Variations
12. Two Poems
13. How Blanquitos Belong, a Reprise
14. Black Lives Matter en español
15. Go Home
16. Erasure
17. For Life
18. Translation at a Loss
19. Ransacked
20. On Audacity
21. A Modest Proposal for White Antiracism in Puerto Rico
22. To Resist and Rescind
23. Sons of María
References
Index
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
Foreword
An examination of the politics of race, in particular whiteness and white privilege, in Puerto Rico.
Additional text
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.
