You don’t look Puerto Rican”
Collective memory and community in Orlando
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Silver (National Coalition of Independent Scholars, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 405-421 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698015601179 |
| OpenAlex | W2302208611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 37 |
Although the 2010 US Census counts documented a large Puerto Rican community in and around Orlando, Florida, 30 years earlier in 1980 Puerto Ricans were living scattered about the area practically unnoticed. A 2008–2009 oral history collection of Puerto Rican memories in Orlando from the 1940s to 1980s gives evidence that middle-class social relations mitigated racial dissonance for some in Orlando’s black-white binary, making it possible to almost disappear into the dominant society. This article posits collective memory as a sociocultural process not an outcome and argues that in that almost is a space of dissonance and difference, where strategic moments of forgetting and re-remembering inform the dynamics of collective memory formation. The memories recorded in the collection describe a slippery space between an invisibility emerging from pressures to assimilate and a hypervisibility emerging from US colonial history in Puerto Rico and widespread stereotyping of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States
Cognitive dissonance · Collective memory · Diaspora · Forgetting · Geography · Oral history · Political science · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology
Divided Borders
The Puerto Rican nation on the move
The Symbolic Construction of Community
National Performances
Oral History Theory
Europe and the people without history
Beyond the Melting Pot. The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City.
A Grounded Identidad
Puerto Ricans in the United States
Racial Transformations
Arrested Histories
Forget Colonialism
The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories
The Symbolic Construction of Community
The Melancholy of Race
Utopia and conflict in the oral testimonies of French 1968 activists
Memory, Media and Menschen
The good memory of this land’
Challenging dominant discourses of the past
From Colonia to Community
Puerto Rico
Navigating the African Diaspora
Beyond the melting pot
Imagined communities
Seven types of forgetting
The Puerto Rican Journey
Finding Meaning in Memory
Memories and Migrations
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Cultural Citizenship and Educational Democracy
Outside the imagined community
The Politics of Everyday Life
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |