Abstract
This essay revisits a 1947 article about race and colonial history in the Americas to uncover overlooked geographic and intellectual components of the emerging Green Revolution in agricultural technologies then in formation. It argues that Puerto Rico and the island’s agricultural and educational institutions served as critical sites of inter-hemispheric collaboration and convergence in agricultural science and technology with global implications. Focusing on the collaboration and careers of the article’s authors, the Puerto Rican polymath Carlos Chardón and the US geographer Raymond Crist, this essay traces intellectual traditions of race and nation as early organizing principles in the social and political projects of agricultural development in the Caribbean that laid the foundations for the Green Revolution in Latin America.
