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Racism in Puerto Rico

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120:, There was an "absence of legal discrimination" in Puerto Rico, further stating that "Children of all colors meet on equal terms in the public schools, though discrimination is prevalent in private schools, even those which receive government grants. There are no segregated housing areas. Whites, blacks and mulattoes sit side by side in theaters, churches and public vehicles, and lie side by side in the cemeteries." Williams noted how social discrimination increased prior to the passage of the 1943 civil rights and touted the law's benefits. Williams specified that the 1943 civil rights law "recognizes no differences based on race, color, creed, national origin or previous condition" and guarantees "the right of all persons irrespective of differences of race, creed or political affiliation to enjoy the facilities afforded by public places, businesses and any agency of the Insular Government." Williams even noted that "Lynchings are unheard of" in Puerto Rico. William further noted that "Legally, the Negro is on a footing of equality with the white man" and that while social level equality was still not yet realized, "social discrimination does not affect the large majority of colored people," noting how private employment discrimination was most obvious in "upper brackets." 124:
members of the faculty, in a special study of the Negro in Puerto Rico, have brought to light a number of sayings about the Negro common to university students. The saying, “God made the Negro so that the animal can rest," is an example." Williams noted that despite the notable decline in segregation in Puerto Rico following the enactment of the 1943 civil rights law, "colored people in Puerto Rico are very reluctant to visit certain hotels or night clubs," noting how segregation persisted in "first class nightclubs" and that these nightclubs were paying only light $ 25 fines which were "locally considered a joke." However, Williams attributed segregation in Puerto Rico at the time to "class, rather than race." He also noted how in recent time, even opponents of
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of West Africans to Puerto Rico. Gold mines, ginger plantations and sugar plantations heavily relied on the slave work from the Taíno and West Africans. Since the majority of the European and African colonizers and enslaved laborers arrived without women, intermarriage often occurred with the remaining Taíno women. The offspring from these interracial relationships created a population of
105:. The one-drop rule stated that if you had just one drop of Black blood in you, you were Black, not white; that is, if you are not 100% white, then no matter what shade of lightness you are, you are Black. The white upper class made deals with U.S. industrialists and supported U.S. policies in Puerto Rico at the expense of Afro-Puerto Rican civil rights. Puerto Rico passed the 162:, people of the Municipality of Loíza joined in and Juan Dalmau Ramírez, a high-ranking member of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, put forth the need to educate Puerto Rico's children on human rights, and ending racism and xenophobia. The University of Puerto Rico held an online forum on racism and discrimination. During this time as well, a Black family in 1512: 76:
When the gold mines were declared depleted in 1570 and mining came to an end in Puerto Rico, the vast majority of the white Spanish settlers left the island to seek their fortunes in the richer colonies, such as Mexico, and the island became a Spanish garrison. The majority of those who stayed behind
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natives "into slavery, exploiting their labor in the gold mines and on plantations." After nearly a century of exploitation, enslavement, murder, and decline of the Taíno people, Spanish colonizers looked to a new source of slave labor. In 1598 they signed their first contract to bring a large number
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Until 1950 the U.S. Bureau of the Census attempted to quantify the racial composition of the island's population, while experimenting with various racial taxonomies. In 1960 the Census dropped the racial identification question for Puerto Rico but included it again in the year 2000 census. The only
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Williams also touted the progress of the University of Puerto Rico" noting that "In the University of Puerto Rico, colored students, the majority destined to be schoolteachers, are freely admitted," though he also noted some negative aspects of the University's environment, stating that "Yet two
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which also resulted in "whitening" Puerto Rico's population from its offering of land, agricultural, and labor incentives to non-Hispanic white Europeans. The new arrivals continued to intermarry with the native islanders. "The Royal census of Puerto Rico in 1834 established that the island's
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population as 42,000 enslaved Africans, 25,000 colored freemen, 189,000 people who identified themselves as whites and 101,000 who were described as being of mixed ethnicity." A number of slave uprisings in plantations took place between 1820 and 1868. Puerto Rico abolished slavery in 1873.
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were either black or mulatto. The next major wave of West African slaves into Puerto Rico came after The Royal Decree of Graces of 1789, which allowed Spanish subjects in the Caribbean to participate in the business of slave trade and labor, particular importing slaves from the Gold Coast.
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category that remained constant over time was white, even as other racial labels shifted greatly—from "colored" to "Black," "mulatto," and "other". Regardless of the precise terminology, the Census reported that the bulk of the Puerto Rican population was white from 1899 to 2000. In the
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Puerto Ricans were asked to choose which racial category they self-identified with. The breakdown was follows: white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9%.
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have given Negroes a square deal and opened positions to them, especially in the teaching profession and the higher ranks of the police force, from which they were conventionally debarred."
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By the time Spain reestablished her commercial ties with Puerto Rico, the island had a large multi-ethnic population. Those demographics, though, changed during the 19th century when the
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In 2019, José Pichy Torres Zamora, a Puerto Rican politician was taken to task for making a racist comment regarding the African-descended people of Loíza.
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Leyes de la Tercera Legislatura Ordinaria de la Décimoquinta Asamble Legislativa de Puerto Rico, 8 de Febrero a 15 de Abril de 1943
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Before the first major influx of West Africans into Puerto Rico in the 16th century, Spanish colonizers forced the
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Acts of the Third Regular Session of the Fifteenth Legislature of Puerto Rico, February 8 to April 15, 1943
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in the 1950s, fought to eliminate the "racial" discrimination heightened by U.S. imperialism and to place
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In 2022, a flyer asking "do you want this BLACK man to be mayor of Guayama" circulated before elections.
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African Aspects of the Puerto Rican Personality by (the late) Dr. Robert A. Martinez, Baruch College.
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spearheaded by the Spanish government in the 19th century, with hundreds of immigrants arriving from
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Representation of racial identity among Puerto Ricans and in the U.S. mainland
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The current Puerto Rican population reflects the former immigration policy of
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Second Edition. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Ediciones Callejon. 2016. pp. 17-18.
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Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations
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Index

Puerto Rico
territory of the U.S.
settler society
Europeans
Spanish
Sub-Saharan Africans
African immigration to Puerto Rico
History of Puerto Rico
Taíno
Mulattos
Mestizos
Spanish Crown
Royal Decree of Graces of 1815
white Puerto Rican
one-drop rule
Civil Rights Act of Puerto Rico
Eric Williams
Virgin Islands
Muñoz Marín
party
Pedro Albizu Campos
Afro–Puerto Ricans
worldwide protests against racism
murder of George Floyd
Canóvanas
Demographics of Puerto Rico
1815
Corsica
France
Ireland

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