Wooden House with a Porch and a Fence
Description
Wooden house with a zinc roof. It has a porch with a roof supported by slender wooden pillars. A portion of the porch is covered with palm fronds. There is a double, wooden window. A wooden fence surrounds the area, and there is a staircase leading to the balcony's entrance. On the stairs, there is a man, a woman and a baby, and a woman on the balcony with her back turned.| Origin Name |
CARDC117_R
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| Relation |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín > Sección X, Serie 3, Colección Ángel Ramón del Corral
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| Geographical Coverage |
Municipio desconocido | Unknown Municipality
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| Date |
[fecha de publicación no identificada]
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| Descriptive Notes |
Title assigned by the cataloging team.
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| Descripción decolonial |
A Black woman on a staircase and in the backdrop, a middle-class home hosts a white family observing her care for a white child reflect dynamics of racial capitalism and false notions of racial determinism. The scene underscores the enduring servitude of Black women in Puerto Rican society, a role rooted in history and marked by complex intersections of race, class, and gender. It evokes histories of plantation slavery where enslaved Black women often served as wet nurses in the Spanish colonies and in the southern United States, a tradition documented through visual cultures. Representations and stereotypes of Black women as wet nurses have persisted in Puerto Rico, from the eighteenth century into the present, thus invites reflection on the historical representation and social standing of Black women in Puerto Rico, highlighting the unfortunate continuity of an entrenched matrix of power.
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| Rights |
English Rights. (hyperlink)
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| Editor |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
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| Resource Format |
JPEG
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| Resource Type |
Image
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