Person in Front of the Old Customs House, Ponce
Description
People in front of the building of the Old Customs House in Ponce. Most of the people are civilians, there are various soldiers also. A portion of the building can be seen with a surbased arch entrance, quoins, and windows with grilles in the first floor, and windows with balconies and balustrades on the second floor. Some soldiers can be seen in the balconies, and another on the roof, holding the United States flags.| Origin Name |
Box 428, Folder 1, Photo 4869
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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 428 - Folder 1 - 1898 Colleciton (28) - Undated
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| Geographical Coverage |
Ponce
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| Date |
[aproximadamente 1898]
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| Descriptive Notes |
Title assigned by the cataloging team.
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 |
Coloniality constructs a paternalist discourse of modernity in which a race defines itself as superior and subordinates another by means of force, under pretexts of civilizing it, although with the purpose of exploiting its natural and human resources. In the case of Puerto Rico, a military government was appointed, after de United States invasion of 1898, and entrusted with the protection of the population and, at the same time, to normalize the presence of the new metropolis in the island. To accomplish this, an acculturation process began, with inclusion of the replacement of symbols which represented the past colonial regime, for example, the flag which floats on top of the buildings from which power is executed. On second term, the identity construction of the subalterns was reinforced by the substitution of those individuals who held the economic power in the country; a situation faced by the creole elites when foreign capital took control over most of the means of production in the island and circumscribed them to the role of intermediaries between them and the working force. This practice repeated itself throughout the different spheres of power in society in a constant redefinition of the colonized cultural identity which makes it difficult for them to redefine themselves and prolong the colonial power relation.
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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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