Family Seated at a Table
Description
Family seated at the table in the dining room of a house. Next to them, there is a young person standing, carrying a plate of food. In the room, besides the table and chairs, there is a sideboard and a folding screen. A portion of the next room is visible through an arch, where a door with a curtain, a painting with a coat of arms, a china cabinet, and a rocking chair can be seen.| Origin Name |
Box 427, Folder 5, Photo 4837
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| Relation |
San Juan National Historic Site (NPS) > San Juan NHS Resource Records Collection > Series VIII Visual Materiales 1788-2017, Subseries B Photographs 1890 - 2011 > Box 427 - Folder 5 - 1898 Collection (25) - 1901-1995
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| Geographical Coverage |
San Juan
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| Date |
1905
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| Descriptive Notes |
Title assigned by the cataloging team.
The image has an inscription reading: "Keystone View Company Manufacturers and Publishers Meadville, Pa. St. Louis, Ma. Copyright 1905, by B. L. Singley."; and another one, reading: "6254-A Porto Rican family."
The general description, date, or geographical coverage has information furnished by the San Juan National Historic Site, Puerto Rico.
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| Descripción decolonial |
Puerto Ricans, as a colonized population, was defined initially by Spain, who eradicated its self-perception and implanted a new cultural identity in contrast to that of the European. As an outcome, the colonized individuals are treated and perceived themselves as inferior regarding their colonizer, even when they tried to assimilate the identity of the one who dominated them in an effort of parallel coexistence with colonial power. This process repeated itself once more after the United States’ invasion of 1898, with the particularity that Puerto Ricans had already lost their own cultural identity. The discomfort generated by the realization of having no cultural identity of their own drove them to question and defy the acculturation process initiated by the United States holding on to eurocentrism. While this process kept taking shape, a second constant repeated itself in the racialization of work which circumscribed the afro-descendent population to tasks of servitude; a practice which also dated back to the European colonization of America.
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| Rights |
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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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