On Being a White Person of Color: Using Autoethnography to Understand Puerto Ricans' Racialization |
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Authors: | Vidal-Ortiz Salvador |
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Affiliation: | (1) Sociology Department, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016 |
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Abstract: | This article uses autoethnography to make larger conceptual/theoretical points about racial/ethnic identity categories for Puerto Ricans in the United States. I utilize Puerto Rican-ness to illustrate the limitations of U.S. race and ethnic constructs by furthering racialization analyses with seemingly contradictory categories such as white and people of color. I contrast personal experiences to those of racial/ethnic classificatory systems, the American imagery of Puerto Ricans, and simplistic, political identifications. Travel, colonial relations, intra-ethnic coalitional possibilities, and second-class citizenship are all aspects that expand on the notion of racialization as classically utilized in sociology and the social sciences. Although this is not a comparative study, I present differences between racial formation systems in Puerto Rico and the U.S. in order to make these points. |
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Keywords: | autoethnography racialization race/ethnicity Puerto Ricans people of color |
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