Not of pure blood: the free people of color and racial prejudice in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico

"Based on examination of housing patterns in San Juan and demographic data from four of its 19th-century barrios, work provides a much-needed exploration of racial prejudice in Puerto Rico. Challenges commonplace denial of racial discrimination up to the present by showing that free people of c...

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Main Author: Kinsbruner, Jay (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [u.a.] Duke Univ. Press 1996
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Summary:"Based on examination of housing patterns in San Juan and demographic data from four of its 19th-century barrios, work provides a much-needed exploration of racial prejudice in Puerto Rico. Challenges commonplace denial of racial discrimination up to the present by showing that free people of color had limited economic, social, and political opportunities to advance their status"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.. - http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Physical Description:XIV, 176 S. graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:0822318369