Racial (dis)harmony in Puerto Rico -- Slavery and the multi-racial-racially mixed laboring classes -- Becoming a free worker in post-emancipation Puerto Rico -- Liberal elites' writings : the racial dissection of the Puerto Rican specimen -- Race and social struggles in the restructuring of late-nineteenth century Ponce -- U.S. rule and the volatile topic of race in the public political sphere -- Racial silencing and the organizing of Puerto Rican labor -- Deflecting Puerto Rico's blackness -- The heavy weight of silence.
