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Sources for studying the colonial free-coloured peasantry of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic

A workshop hosted by the LAI Working Group on Caribeean Studies.

The presentations are as follows:

Francisco Scarano, "Peasant Identities and Social Power in Spanish Colonial Puerto Rico."

Francisco Scarano is currently working on two projects: Jibaro Masquerades: Peasants, Politics and Identity in Puerto Rico; and The Caribbean: An Illustrated History, with Stephan Palmié. His edited publications include Colonial Crucible: Empire and the Making of the Modern State (with Alfred McCoy); Cuba: Counterpoints on Culture, History and Society; and Puerto Rico: Cinco siglos de historia. His book, Sugar and Slavery in Puerto Rico, was co-winner of the Elsa Goveia prize for best book in Caribbean history.
He is professor of the Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Raymundo González, "El rastro de los monteros en Santo Domingo colonial: Archivos y perspectiva teórica."

Raymundo González' publications include: Bonó, un intelectual de los pobres; El Montero-epistolario: Pedro Francisco Bonó; Educación, democracia, ciudadanización y construcción de identidades nacionales (with Marcos Villamán). His edited works include: Ensayos sociohistóricos, actuación
pública: Pedro Francisco Bonó; Política, identidad y pensamiento social en la República Dominicana (Siglos XIX y XX) (co-editor).
He is presently director of research at the National Archives of the Dominican Republic and a member of the Dominican Academy of History.

Diego Ubiera, discussant, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at San Diego

Reception to follow

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Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, The Mellon Seminar on Caribbean Cultural History, LAI Working Group on Caribbean Studies