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It has become almost a mantra to say that race is a social, cultural, and historical phenomenon. Nevertheless, the specific processes by which racial identities, racial hierarchies, and the various meanings of “race” itself are constructed are still, for the most part, awaiting a considered analysis by researchers. Many historical studies on race relations fail to question the concept of race, simply incorporating it as a given, just as it appears in church or census records and other official documents. It is surprising how many studies on the topic offer no definition whatsoever of the term. Even those works that aspire to analyze the impact of sociocultural processes on the determination of racial categories are often stymied as they try to find a way around modern conceptions that link racial differences to certain somatic characteristics. If, however, race is a historical and cultural construct, it is not impossible to conceive of the existence of racial identities that are not linked to physical traits. A sense of race may manifest differently across time and space; moreover, these manifestations need not be linked inevitably with biology. Race does not have just one single history. Thus the study of race demands a variety of approaches that take into account phenomena that are historical, complex, and heterogeneous. Such approaches, however, require that we free ourselves of many of the presuppositions on which modern thought is based

Routes to Whiteness, or How to Scrub Out the Stain: Hegemonic Masculinity and Racialization in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico