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On the Border of Belonging

Luisa Capetillo, Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, and Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo

Stephanie Rivera Berruz

Rutgers University Press, 2027

On the Border of Belonging: Luisa Capetillo, Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, and Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo is a philosophical-historiographical project that spearheads the construction of an intellectual tradition of women from the Hispanophone Caribbean at the turn of the 20th century. On the Border of Belonging engages Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico), Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta (Cuba), Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo (Dominican Republic) as interlocutors with the landfall of Western modernity revealing a tense intersection between a desire to belong to modernity while sitting on the margins of its possibilities. The vexed relationship with belonging creates a counter-archive of contradictions that reveals a vivid philosophical patchwork that spirals and repeats across the archipelago. In this crosscurrent of ideas, Luisa Capetillo defends the possibilities of a spiritual- anarchist political life; Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta challenges the norms of love and kinship; and Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo contests the standards of maternal and infant care. 

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Other 1898s

Working-Class Politics in the Postemancipation Caribbean

Anne Eller

Duke University Press, 2027

Other 1898s connects four histories from three islands to compose a portrait of working-class politics in the Caribbean in the late nineteenth century. After the legal end of slavery in the Americas, deepening imperialism and profound economic difficulty provoked debates over development, massive migration, and revolutionary projects. Piecing together and interpreting a fragmentary archive, decades into emancipation, Anne Eller recovers the rhythm of daily life, considers how Caribbean publics responded to the rising tide of colonial violence in Africa, and illustrates the growing influence of the United States throughout the Caribbean. Showing the interconnection of working-class movements in remote coasts, plantations, and growing cities, she details how communities found small political openings and achieved some hard-won victories. Rising market pressures engulfed every island. Eller reveals how, as political conflicts culminated in the fateful summer of 1898 and foreign warships circled, freedom contests across the Caribbean grew all the more urgent.
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