Whiteness In Puerto Rico : Translation at a Loss

Using autoethnography to examine the social construction of whiteness in Puerto Rico.

Guillermo Rebollo Gil draws from artistic, activist and popular culture registers to examine the multifarious yet often subtle ways race privilege shapes and informs daily life in the Puerto Rican archipelago.

Cross-disciplinary in approach, Whiteness in Puerto Rico speaks to the present political moment in a country marked by austerity, disaster capitalism and protest.