Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800-1850: (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)

Series: Black Studies and Critical Thinking

The Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800-1850 illuminates the role people of African descent played in the building of a Spanish Caribbean society during the social upheaval of the early nineteenth century. Dungy uses gender, color, and class differences as lenses to understand a colonial society that was regulated by social relationships.