Ileana M Rodríguez-Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 703599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ileana M Rodríguez-Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ileana M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez-Silva |
| SIGNATURE | RODRÍGUEZ-SILVA I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7768-8606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World
This essay examines three historical moments in the signification of the term cimarrón across the hispanophone Caribbean. It explores its origin during the conquest, simultaneously naming runaway livestock and Native and Black enslaved peoples who challenged colonization. In the twentieth century, the cimarrón became attached to masculinist nationalist tropes key to postwar anticolonial movements. In the new millennium, Black and Brown women and …
Introduction
This article highlights the overall aims of the special issue, which reconceptualizes island worlds as situated historical places, that is, islands and their networks as spaces that come to life through the multiple and contested meanings constantly attached to them, formed in the milieu of overlapping and competing European, US, and Southeast Asian empires and diasporas. By investigating the forms and politics of storytelling in the island South…
The Caribbean House of Mirrors
This article introduces the house of mirrors as an analytical device with the aim of cracking open binary comparative work. It offers close readings of debates regarding US colonialism among Puerto Rican intellectuals and politicians at two distinct historical moments. These are the 1910s, prompted specifically by the 1912 War in Cuba, and the early Cold War, the 1950s and 1960s moment of intentionally modeling Puerto Rico as the “Showcase of the…
The Fight for Human Rights Begins at Home
Negociaciones de sangre
In Negociaciones de sangre, historian María del Carmen Baerga carefully examines the institution of marriage in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico to unearth the complex production of racialized difference before narrow concepts of biology (phenotype, heredity, and genes) gained primacy in the conceptualizing of race during the late modern period.Instead of employing a modern optic to read the past (which sees race as a transmittable but contained es…
David M. Stark. Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
David M. Stark’s new book Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico is a welcome addition to the scholarship on slavery in the Americas, deepening our knowledge of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puerto Rico and the western Caribbean. His main goal is to analyze “the relationship between commodity production, work regimes, and the demographic experiences of the enslaved” (2). The challenges for enslaved peoples to constitute and sust…
Eating Puerto Rico
Eating Puerto Rico is an illuminating historical exploration of the local, regional, and global dynamics shaping the material conditions and practices as well as the affective and symbolic needs that have led Puerto Rican people to associate specific foods with the nation. In this book, Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra grounds culinary culture in the logistics of conquest and colonization; migration; gender, class, and racialized struggles; climate and s…
Abolition, Race, and the Politics of Gratitude in Late Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
This essay investigates the political workings of gratitude in Puerto Rico in the postabolition decades in order to uncover how these practices of benevolence, which obscure the violence of everyday marginalization, became key in liberal political forms as a means of rearticulating white superiority and patriarchal authority. The article analyzes the practice of gratitude that liberal elites demanded from former slaves after emancipation as well …
Silencing Race
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization
Boricua Power
Journal Article Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States by José Ramón Sánchez Get access Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States by José Ramón Sánchez. New York, New York University Press, 2007. 304 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.00. Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar P…
Sugar, Slavery, & Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (review)
Introduction
This article highlights the overall aims of the special issue, which reconceptualizes island worlds as situated historical places, that is, islands and their networks as spaces that come to life through the multiple and contested meanings constantly attached to them, formed in the milieu of overlapping and competing European, US, and Southeast Asian empires and diasporas. By investigating the forms and politics of storytelling in the island South…
Abolition, Race, and the Politics of Gratitude in Late Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
This essay investigates the political workings of gratitude in Puerto Rico in the postabolition decades in order to uncover how these practices of benevolence, which obscure the violence of everyday marginalization, became key in liberal political forms as a means of rearticulating white superiority and patriarchal authority. The article analyzes the practice of gratitude that liberal elites demanded from former slaves after emancipation as well …
Sugar, Slavery, & Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (review)
Boricua Power
Journal Article Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States by José Ramón Sánchez Get access Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States by José Ramón Sánchez. New York, New York University Press, 2007. 304 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.00. Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar P…
Silencing Race
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization
Abolition, Race, and the Politics of Gratitude in Late Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
This essay investigates the political workings of gratitude in Puerto Rico in the postabolition decades in order to uncover how these practices of benevolence, which obscure the violence of everyday marginalization, became key in liberal political forms as a means of rearticulating white superiority and patriarchal authority. The article analyzes the practice of gratitude that liberal elites demanded from former slaves after emancipation as well …
Eating Puerto Rico
Eating Puerto Rico is an illuminating historical exploration of the local, regional, and global dynamics shaping the material conditions and practices as well as the affective and symbolic needs that have led Puerto Rican people to associate specific foods with the nation. In this book, Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra grounds culinary culture in the logistics of conquest and colonization; migration; gender, class, and racialized struggles; climate and s…
David M. Stark. Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
David M. Stark’s new book Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico is a welcome addition to the scholarship on slavery in the Americas, deepening our knowledge of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puerto Rico and the western Caribbean. His main goal is to analyze “the relationship between commodity production, work regimes, and the demographic experiences of the enslaved” (2). The challenges for enslaved peoples to constitute and sust…
Negociaciones de sangre
In Negociaciones de sangre, historian María del Carmen Baerga carefully examines the institution of marriage in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico to unearth the complex production of racialized difference before narrow concepts of biology (phenotype, heredity, and genes) gained primacy in the conceptualizing of race during the late modern period.Instead of employing a modern optic to read the past (which sees race as a transmittable but contained es…
The Fight for Human Rights Begins at Home
Introduction
This article highlights the overall aims of the special issue, which reconceptualizes island worlds as situated historical places, that is, islands and their networks as spaces that come to life through the multiple and contested meanings constantly attached to them, formed in the milieu of overlapping and competing European, US, and Southeast Asian empires and diasporas. By investigating the forms and politics of storytelling in the island South…
The Caribbean House of Mirrors
This article introduces the house of mirrors as an analytical device with the aim of cracking open binary comparative work. It offers close readings of debates regarding US colonialism among Puerto Rican intellectuals and politicians at two distinct historical moments. These are the 1910s, prompted specifically by the 1912 War in Cuba, and the early Cold War, the 1950s and 1960s moment of intentionally modeling Puerto Rico as the “Showcase of the…
Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World
This essay examines three historical moments in the signification of the term cimarrón across the hispanophone Caribbean. It explores its origin during the conquest, simultaneously naming runaway livestock and Native and Black enslaved peoples who challenged colonization. In the twentieth century, the cimarrón became attached to masculinist nationalist tropes key to postwar anticolonial movements. In the new millennium, Black and Brown women and …
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