Background
Kinsbruner, Jay was born on January 10, 1939 in New York City. Son of Mac and Florence (Reitman) Kinsbruner.
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Countering the popular misconception that racial discrimination has largely not existed in Puerto Rico, Jay Kinsbruner’s Not of Pure Blood shows that racial prejudice has long had an insidious effect on Puerto Rican society. Kinsbruner’s study focuses on the free people of color—those of African descent who were considered nonwhite but were legally free during slavery—in order to explore the nature of racial prejudice in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico. In considering the consequences of these nineteenth-century attitudes on twentieth-century Puerto Rico, Kinsbruner suggests that racial discrimination continues to limit opportunities for people of color. Following a discussion of Puerto Rican racial prejudice in historical perspective, Kinsbruner describes residential patterns, marriages, births, deaths, occupations, and family and household matters to demonstrate that free people of color were a disadvantaged community whose political, social, and economic status was diminished by racism. He analyzes the complexities and contradictions of Puerto Rican racial prejudice and discrimination, explains the subtleties of “shade discrimination,” and examines the profoundly negative impact on race relations of the U.S. occupation of the island following the Spanish American War. Looking behind the myth of Puerto Rican racial equity, Not of Pure Blood will be of interest to specialists in Caribbean studies, Puerto Rican history, and Latin America studies, and to scholars in a variety of fields investigating questions of racism and discrimination.
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( In overturning Spain's control of the Americas, such gr...)
In overturning Spain's control of the Americas, such great military leaders as Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín unleashed both civil wars and revolutions between 1810 and 1824. Sixteen nations emerged from these violent and cataclysmic wars. The liberators set themselves up to govern the new states they created but quickly failed as rulers. They succumbed, in part, to changes resulting from independence itself-a new political order. Military campaigns directed against Spain split the colonists into royalists and patriots, resulting in a decade of civil wars. The newly formed nations simultaneously embraced capitalism and liberalism, but divisions persisted over the purpose of government and the organization of the economy and society. Clearly laid out in this book is an insightful interpretation of a pivotal era in world history. This new edition, revised and enlarged to take account of recently published studies as well as a rethinking of certain prevailing views, is a compelling reinterpretation of the independence era. The turbulent history of the independence movements is set forth with attention to key figures and their ideologies, regional differences, and the legacy of underdevelopment left by the wars of independence. "A superior work of synthesis. . . . Kinsbruner writes in a style which engages the attention of the reader, and scholars as well as students will profit from his book."--John Lynch, Professor Emeritus, University of London "Kinsbruner provides us with a much needed clear, concise interpretation."--Richard W. Slatta, North Carolina State University
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Kinsbruner, Jay was born on January 10, 1939 in New York City. Son of Mac and Florence (Reitman) Kinsbruner.
Bachelor, Syracuse University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1964.
Instructor Nassau County College, Garden City, New York, 1964-1965. Assistant to professor Queens College City University of New York, Flushing, from 1965. Visiting scholar Institute Caribbean Studies, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1984.
Member national screening committee for Fulbright Program, since 1999. Visiting professor history University Miami, spring 2000.
( Countering the popular misconception that racial discri...)
( In overturning Spain's control of the Americas, such gr...)
Member American History Association, Conference on Latin American History, Latin America Studies Association.
Married Karen Hillman, March 14, 1972. Children: Jennifer, Mieca.