Blackness, ethnicity and cultural transformations in southern Puerto Rico

"This dissertation presents a study of a set of communities of Afro-Antillean peoples of the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico. The term ""community"" is used in a dynamic sense to refer to aggregated people who share a cultural set of values and experiences. The people making up the community of the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico share a cultural set of values and experiences. However, the ways by which they interpret, experience and act differs among themselves because, as individuals, they draw upon a multivocal symbolic system that not only maintains the social order but can also transform it."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Black Studies

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Torres, Arlene

Contributors dc:contributor

• Whitten, Norman E., Jr.

• Black Studies
• Anthropology, Cultural

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1995 Torres, Arlene

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9543751
(UMI)AAI9543751

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23570