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Autoethnographic in scope, this chapter analyzes Puerto Rican racism through the lens of whiteness and white privilege as they manifest themselves in the author’s life. In recounting certain events from the author’s schooling and upbringing, the chapter examines the often shielded manner in which racism structures everyday life on the island.
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I’m paraphrasing Zora Neale Hurston, as quoted in Rankine, Claudia. 2014. Citizen: An American Lyric, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 25.
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Rebollo Gil, G. (2018). How to Be in Another’s Debt. In: Writing Puerto Rico. New Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92976-7_4
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