Puerto Rico In The American Century
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Puerto Rico In The American Century
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Author : César J. Ayala
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-06-23
Puerto Rico In The American Century written by César J. Ayala and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-23 with History categories.
Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the island residents, who experience an unusual and daily conundrum: they consider themselves a distinct people but are part of the American political system; they have U.S. citizenship but are not represented in the U.S. Congress; and they live on land that is neither independent nor part of the United States. Highlighting both well-known and forgotten figures from Puerto Rican history, Ayala and Bernabe discuss a wide range of topics, including literary and cultural debates and social and labor struggles that previous histories have neglected. Although the island's political economy remains dependent on the United States, the authors also discuss Puerto Rico's situation in light of world economies. Ayala and Bernabe argue that the inability of Puerto Rico to shake its colonial legacy reveals the limits of free-market capitalism, a break from which would require a renewal of the long tradition of labor and social activism in Puerto Rico in connection with similar currents in the United States.
Puerto Rico In The American Century
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Author : Csar J. Ayala
language : en
Publisher: Read How You Want.Com
Release Date : 2009-01-28
Puerto Rico In The American Century written by Csar J. Ayala and has been published by Read How You Want.Com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-28 with History categories.
Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family
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Author : Hilda Lloréns
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2014-10-30
Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family written by Hilda Lloréns and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-30 with Social Science categories.
In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study of images—photographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and films—about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990. Through illuminating discussions of artists, images, and social events, the book offers a critical analysis of the power-laden cultural and historic junctures imbricated in the creation of re-presentations of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans by Americans (“outsiders”) and Puerto Ricans (“insiders”) during an historical epoch marked by the twin concepts of “modernization” and “progress.” The study excavates the ways in which colonial power and resistance to it have shaped representations of Puerto Rico and its people. Hilda Lloréns demonstrates how nation, race, and gender figure in representation, and how these representations in turn help shape the discourses of nation, race, and gender. Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family masterfully illustrates that as significant actors in the shaping of national conceptions of history image-makers have created iconic symbols deeply enmeshed in an “emotional aesthetics of nation.” The book proposes that images as important conveyers of knowledge and information are a fertile data site. At the same time, Lloréns underscores how colonial modernity turned global, the conceptual framework informing the analysis, not only calls attention to the national and global networks in which image-makers have been a part of, and by which they have been influenced, but highlights the manners by which technologies of imaging and “seeing” have been prime movers as well as critics of modernity.
Foreign In A Domestic Sense
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Author : Christina Duffy Burnett
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001-07-20
Foreign In A Domestic Sense written by Christina Duffy Burnett and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-20 with Law categories.
In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship. More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated” U.S. territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied full representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. Focusing on Puerto Rico, the largest and most populous of the territories, Foreign in a Domestic Sense sheds much-needed light on the United States’ unfinished colonial experiment and its legacy of racially rooted imperialism, while insisting on the centrality of these “marginal” regions in any serious treatment of American constitutional history. For one hundred years, Puerto Ricans have struggled to define their place in a nation that neither wants them nor wants to let them go. They are caught in a debate too politicized to yield meaningful answers. Meanwhile, doubts concerning the constitutionality of keeping colonies have languished on the margins of mainstream scholarship, overlooked by scholars outside the island and ignored by the nation at large. This book does more than simply fill a glaring omission in the study of race, cultural identity, and the Constitution; it also makes a crucial contribution to the study of American federalism, serves as a foundation for substantive debate on Puerto Rico’s status, and meets an urgent need for dialogue on territorial status between the mainlandd and the territories. Contributors. José Julián Álvarez González, Roberto Aponte Toro, Christina Duffy Burnett, José A. Cabranes, Sanford Levinson, Burke Marshall, Gerald L. Neuman, Angel R. Oquendo, Juan Perea, Efrén Rivera Ramos, Rogers M. Smith, E. Robert Statham Jr., Brook Thomas, Richard Thornburgh, Juan R. Torruella, José Trías Monge, Mark Tushnet, Mark Weiner
Puerto Rico
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Author : José Trías Monge
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Puerto Rico written by José Trías Monge and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with History categories.
Former Attorney General and former Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, Jose Trias Monge describes his island as one of the most densely populated places on earth, with a severely distressed economy and limited political freedom--still considered a colony of the U.S. Monge claims the island has become too dependent on U.S. money and argues for decolonization and movement toward more independence. 28 illustrations.
The Disenchanted Island
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Author : Ronald Fernandez
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1996-03-20
The Disenchanted Island written by Ronald Fernandez and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-20 with Political Science categories.
This is a revised and updated edition of Ronald Fernandez's acclaimed study of the Puerto Rico-United States relationship. Tracing that relationship from the early years of the 20th century through to the present, Fernandez provides a comprehensive analysis of political, economic, and military affairs as they relate to Puerto Rico. The new edition is completely up-to-date through 1995 and includes important new material based upon documents found in the Reagan presidential library, as well as newly declassified documents in the Eisenhower library.
The American Century And Beyond
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Author : George C. Herring
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-23
The American Century And Beyond written by George C. Herring and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-23 with History categories.
In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid." At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States seemed poised to achieve a position of world power beyond what even Washington could have imagined. In The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014, the second volume of a new split paperback edition of the award-winning From Colony to Superpower, George C. Herring recounts the rise of the United States from the dawn of what came to be known as the American Century. This fast-paced narrative tells a story of stunning successes and tragic failures, illuminating the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation. Herring shows how policymakers defined American interests broadly to include territorial expansion, access to growing markets, and the spread of the "American way of life." He recounts the United States' domination of the Caribbean and Pacific, its decisive involvement in two world wars, and the eventual victory in the half-century Cold War that left it, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world's lone superpower. But the unipolar moment turned out to be stunningly brief. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the emergence of nations such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China have left the United States in a position that is uncertain at best. A new chapter brings Herring's sweeping narrative up through the Global War on Terror to the present.
Hispanic Americans In Congress 1822 2012
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Author : Congress
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Release Date : 2014-04-14
Hispanic Americans In Congress 1822 2012 written by Congress and has been published by Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A compilation of historical essays and short biographies about 91 Hispanic-Americans who served in Congress from 1822 to 2012"--Provided by publisher
Hispanic Americans In Congress 1822 2012
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Author : Matthew Andrew Wasniewski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Hispanic Americans In Congress 1822 2012 written by Matthew Andrew Wasniewski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Government publications categories.
"A compilation of historical essays and short biographies about 91 Hispanic-Americans who served in Congress from 1822 to 2012"--Provided by publisher.
Agrarian Puerto Rico
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Author : César J. Ayala
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-30
Agrarian Puerto Rico written by César J. Ayala and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism's impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.