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Almost Citizens traces the struggles over citizenship waged between US officials and Puerto Rican individuals, which led to a seismic constitutional shift away from citizenship, rights, and statehood, and toward racist imperial governance.
The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the... Læs mere
Using a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Puerto Rican singers to explore how their voices, performance style, physical appearance, and subject matter of their songs challenged social and cultural norms.
A transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in... Læs mere
Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how the popular music style reggaetón offers a space for Puerto Rican musicians to express identities that... Læs mere
In the 1930s, Puerto Rico was economically and culturally a nineteenth-century agrarian state dominated by sugar and coffee... Læs mere
Provides the documentation of the 20th-century history of the Puerto Rican labor movement with a scholarly treatment of... Læs mere
A deep ethnography of the daily lives of women who live with mental illness
This title explores the war that followed the US invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 and has been written by Puerto Rico's leading historian.
Features essays that deal with continuity and change in Puerto Rico. This title presents a window onto San Juan's cultural mosaic. It... Læs mere
A detailed analysis of Puerto Rican society during the Spanish colonial period, highlighting the roles and responsibilities of women and workers. Rather than celebrating the victors, the author has composed the book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed and exploited.