Isar Pilar Godreau
Biographic Data
| ID | 123248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isar Pilar Godreau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isar Pilar |
| FAMILY NAME | Godreau |
| SIGNATURE | GODREAU I P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puerto Rico at Cayey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9792-8996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students
Attrition rates in the first two years of graduate school are high and ~50% higher for underrepresented students. Here we evaluate an online group coaching intervention using a controlled and an experimental group to determine its impact on skills that are likely predictors of student success, namely the Hallmark of Success indices developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our intervention includes eight online coaching sessions (four…
From Undergraduate Research to Graduation: Measuring the Robustness of the Pathway at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Based on several regression specifications that control for a host of covariates, this article demonstrates that the quantity of undergraduate research experience was by far the most important determinant for increased graduation rates at a 100% Hispanic-serving institution. Our finding also shows a causal relationship confirmed by propensity score matching analyses. Results underscore the high impact but sometimes underestimated contribution of …
Colorism and Health Disparities in Home Countries: The Case of Puerto Rico
Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities
Using the concept of "racecraft" to describe the state production of racial subjectivities, we argue that this process has been increasingly compromised in Puerto Rico by a lack of sovereignty and by the current socioeconomic crisis. We argue that the state-sponsored idea that Puerto Rican white and mixed-race identities operate separately from the US racial framework is receding. Based on the unconventional use of an open-ended question for raci…
Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico
The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. This book explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race—created to overcome U.S. colonial power—simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism. Based on an ethnographic study of the barrio of San Antón in the city of Ponce, the book examines institution…
The People of Puerto Ricoin Puerto Rico: Past and Contemporary Reactions to the Book
Like other students of social sciences trained in Puerto Rico in the late 1980s and 1990s, the author of this article learned about The People of Puerto Rico while studying abroad in the US – not in Puerto Rico. This article explores why, in spite of its influential contribution to anthropology and to the social sciences in general, this important book was not widely read or taught at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). To explore this paradox, …
Colonial Incongruence at Work: Employing US Census Racial Categories in Puerto Rico
The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery,mestizaje,andblanqueamientoin an elementary school in Puerto Rico
On the basis of ethnographic research conducted in an elementary public school in Puerto Rico, we maintain in this article that subduing and narrowing the history of slavery is instrumental in the reproduction of national ideologies ofmestizajein Afro-Latin America. We explore how school texts and practices silence, trivialize, and simplify the history of slavery and conclude that these maneuvers distance blackness from Puerto Rican identity and …
Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico
In this article, I critique some of the discursive terms in which blackness is folklorized and celebrated institutionally as part of the nation in Puerto Rico. I examine a government-sponsored housing project that meant to revitalize and stylize the community of San Ant n, in Ponce, as a historic black site. Although government officials tried to preserve what they considered to be traditional aspects of this community, conflict arose because not…
The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery,mestizaje,andblanqueamientoin an elementary school in Puerto Rico
On the basis of ethnographic research conducted in an elementary public school in Puerto Rico, we maintain in this article that subduing and narrowing the history of slavery is instrumental in the reproduction of national ideologies ofmestizajein Afro-Latin America. We explore how school texts and practices silence, trivialize, and simplify the history of slavery and conclude that these maneuvers distance blackness from Puerto Rican identity and …
Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities
Using the concept of "racecraft" to describe the state production of racial subjectivities, we argue that this process has been increasingly compromised in Puerto Rico by a lack of sovereignty and by the current socioeconomic crisis. We argue that the state-sponsored idea that Puerto Rican white and mixed-race identities operate separately from the US racial framework is receding. Based on the unconventional use of an open-ended question for raci…
Colorism and Health Disparities in Home Countries: The Case of Puerto Rico
Colonial Incongruence at Work: Employing US Census Racial Categories in Puerto Rico
The People of Puerto Ricoin Puerto Rico: Past and Contemporary Reactions to the Book
Like other students of social sciences trained in Puerto Rico in the late 1980s and 1990s, the author of this article learned about The People of Puerto Rico while studying abroad in the US – not in Puerto Rico. This article explores why, in spite of its influential contribution to anthropology and to the social sciences in general, this important book was not widely read or taught at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). To explore this paradox, …
Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico
In this article, I critique some of the discursive terms in which blackness is folklorized and celebrated institutionally as part of the nation in Puerto Rico. I examine a government-sponsored housing project that meant to revitalize and stylize the community of San Ant n, in Ponce, as a historic black site. Although government officials tried to preserve what they considered to be traditional aspects of this community, conflict arose because not…
The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery,mestizaje,andblanqueamientoin an elementary school in Puerto Rico
On the basis of ethnographic research conducted in an elementary public school in Puerto Rico, we maintain in this article that subduing and narrowing the history of slavery is instrumental in the reproduction of national ideologies ofmestizajein Afro-Latin America. We explore how school texts and practices silence, trivialize, and simplify the history of slavery and conclude that these maneuvers distance blackness from Puerto Rican identity and …
Colonial Incongruence at Work: Employing US Census Racial Categories in Puerto Rico
The People of Puerto Ricoin Puerto Rico: Past and Contemporary Reactions to the Book
Like other students of social sciences trained in Puerto Rico in the late 1980s and 1990s, the author of this article learned about The People of Puerto Rico while studying abroad in the US – not in Puerto Rico. This article explores why, in spite of its influential contribution to anthropology and to the social sciences in general, this important book was not widely read or taught at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). To explore this paradox, …
Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico
The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. This book explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race—created to overcome U.S. colonial power—simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism. Based on an ethnographic study of the barrio of San Antón in the city of Ponce, the book examines institution…
Colorism and Health Disparities in Home Countries: The Case of Puerto Rico
Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities
Using the concept of "racecraft" to describe the state production of racial subjectivities, we argue that this process has been increasingly compromised in Puerto Rico by a lack of sovereignty and by the current socioeconomic crisis. We argue that the state-sponsored idea that Puerto Rican white and mixed-race identities operate separately from the US racial framework is receding. Based on the unconventional use of an open-ended question for raci…
From Undergraduate Research to Graduation: Measuring the Robustness of the Pathway at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Based on several regression specifications that control for a host of covariates, this article demonstrates that the quantity of undergraduate research experience was by far the most important determinant for increased graduation rates at a 100% Hispanic-serving institution. Our finding also shows a causal relationship confirmed by propensity score matching analyses. Results underscore the high impact but sometimes underestimated contribution of …
Can coaching bridge the gap for incoming Latinx graduate students
Attrition rates in the first two years of graduate school are high and ~50% higher for underrepresented students. Here we evaluate an online group coaching intervention using a controlled and an experimental group to determine its impact on skills that are likely predictors of student success, namely the Hallmark of Success indices developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our intervention includes eight online coaching sessions (four…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Racism (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works)