Title

"Then I do what I want": Teachers, state, and empire in 2000

Authors

Authors

P. Silver

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Am. Ethnol.

Keywords

Anthropology

Abstract

The continuities from U.S. colonialism through "embedded" Liberalism to neoliberalism are visible in distinct forms of discipline, freedom, and choice in the Lives of Puerto Rican public school teachers. Historically shifting, but momentarily singular, representations of the good teacher use gender and class ideologies to promote ideals of disciplined uniformity, democratic social service, and disciplined individuality. A sweep of Puerto Rican history across the American Century, coupled with the details of daily Life in Puerto Rican public schools, offers a view about what choice means when the conditions for choosing emerge from the neoliberal prescriptions of the "new imperialism."

Journal Title

American Ethnologist

Volume

34

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

268

Last Page

284

WOS Identifier

WOS:000246434000012

ISSN

0094-0496

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