Mrs. Fela in the Luis Lloréns Torres public housing - PRAHA

Mrs. Fela in the Luis Lloréns Torres public housing

Description

Mrs. Felisa Rincón de Gautier carrying a baby and surrounded by several persons (adults and minors) in front of one of the buildings of the government housing project, Luis Lloréns Torres. Behind the people, there are moving trucks and in the background, buildings with lattice-style windows, cantilevered balconies and built-in balconies.

Origin Name	Folio 0045-B, Caja 145_R
Relation	Archivo General de Puerto Rico > Colección Particular Felisa Rincón de Gautier (CP 85) > Serie Fotografías > Tema Obras Públicas > Caja 0145
Geographical Coverage	San Juan
Date	[1946-1968?]
Descriptive Notes	Title assigned by the cataloguing team. Back. Stamp: "General Archive of Puerto Rico Felisa Rincón de Gautier Collection box #147 photo #45" Inscription: "First family to move to the government housing project Llorens Torres, victims of the fire in the Hoare neighborhood"
Descripción decolonial	The mayor of San Juan, Doña Felisa Rincón de Gautier, holds an infant in her arms alongside the child's parents and other Afro-Caribbean people looking at the camera as part of the move to the Luis Llorens Torres public housing development. There is an element of solidarity on the part of the mayor in maintaining a harmony of power with her San Juan citizens, but the division of classes and races in Puerto Rican society is marked. Here we see the beginnings of marginalization and racialization of a population that is of African descent and whose inequality gap will increase in the future when the state abandons the affordable housing project. There is racial segregation in the slums, part of an institutional racism in which they begin to be linked to criminality. To this day, living in a residential area is socially an object of prejudice and inequalities in accessibility to quality education and employment.
Historical Background	Political Parties in Puerto Rico: Popular Democratic Party The Great Economic Depression and the New Deal: The Puerto Rico Emergency Relief Administration (PRERA) and the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA) Government of Puerto Rico: Operation Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Civil Society - People: Felisa Rincón de Gautier Housing in Puerto Rico: Social Interest Housing (“Caseríos", Public Housing, Subsidized Housing Complexes)
Architectural Subject	Housing projects Low-rise buildings Jalousie windows Balconies Overhangs People (agents)
Decolonial Subject	Afro Caribbean Afrolatino Coloniality of Power Right to Shelter Ratial Determinism Color-Race Duality Afro-Boricua / Afro-Puerto Rican Population Racialization (processes of racialization) Institutional Racism Race
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Editor	Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format	JPEG
Resource Type	Image

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