Title

"Then I Do What I Want": Teachers, State, And Empire In 2000

Keywords

Education reform; Empire; Imperialism; Neoliberalism; Puerto Rico; Teachers

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. © 2007 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

5-1-2007

Publication Title

American Ethnologist

Volume

34

Issue

2

Number of Pages

268-284

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2007.34.2.268

Socpus ID

34248150445 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/34248150445

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