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Author : American Council on Public Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Problems ... written by American Council on Public Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ed Morales
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568588984
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Fantasy Island written by Ed Morales and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests. Taking readers from San Juan to New York City and back to his family's home in the Luquillo Mountains, Morales shows us the machinations of financial and political interests in both the US and Puerto Rico, and the resistance efforts of Puerto Rican artists and activists. Through it all, he emphasizes that the only way to stop Puerto Rico from being bled is to let Puerto Ricans take control of their own destiny, going beyond the statehood-commonwealth-independence debate to complete decolonization.
Author : Edgardo Meléndez
Publisher : Latinidad: Transnational Cultu
ISBN 13 : 9781978831476
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Puerto Rican Problem in Postwar New York City: Migrant Incorporation from the U.S. Colonial Periphery written by Edgardo Meléndez and published by Latinidad: Transnational Cultu. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the campaign and narrative of the "Puerto Rican problem" in New York City from 1945 to 1960. It looks at how this campaign influenced the incorporation of Puerto Ricans to the US, the policies of the governments of Puerto Rico and New York, and the ways Puerto Ricans were perceived by Americans for decades.
Author : Edwin Meléndez
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896084414
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Colonial Dilemma written by Edwin Meléndez and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays exposing and attacking misconceptions and ignorance regarding the role of the U.S. and other local issues in the context of the broader Puerto Rican struggle for self-determination.
Author : Susan M. Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815715603
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Economy of Puerto Rico written by Susan M. Collins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-08-29 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for the New Economy publication A non-incorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico operates under U.S. legal, monetary, security and tariff systems. Despite sharing in these and other key U.S. institutions, Puerto Rico has experienced economic stagnation and large scale unemployment since the 1970s. The island's living standards are low by U.S. standards, with a per capita income only half that of Mississippi, the poorest state. While many studies have analyzed the fiscal implications of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States, little research has focused broadly on the island's economic experience or assessed its growth prospects. In this innovative new book, economists from U.S. and Puerto Rican institutions address a range of major policy issues affecting the island's economic development. To frame the current situation, the contributors begin by assessing Puerto Rico's past experience with various growth policies. They then analyze several reforms and new initiatives in labor, education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, migration, trade, and financing development, which they incorporate into a proposed strategy for jumpstarting Puerto Rican economic growth. Contributors include Gary Burtless (Brookings Institution); Orlando Sotomayor, Luis Rivera-Batiz, Ramón Cao, Maria Enchautegui, José Joaquín Villamil, Eileen Segarra, Marinés Aponte, and Juan Lara (University of Puerto Rico); Richard Freeman and Robert Lawrence (Harvard University); Helen Ladd (Duke University); Francisco Rivera-Batiz (Columbia University); Steven Davis and Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago); James Alm (Georgia State University); Ingo Walter, Rita Maldonado-Bear, and William Baumol (New York University); Belinda Reyes (University of California, Merced); Alan Krueger (Princeton University); Carlos Santiago (University of Wisconsin); David Audretsch (Indiana University); Ronald Fisher (Michigan State University); Fuat Andic (UN Advisor); Arturo Estrella (NY Federal Reserve); James Hanson and Daniel Lederman (World Bank); James Dietz (University of California, Fullerton); and Katherine Terrell (University of Michigan).
Author : Lorrin Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226796108
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Citizen written by Lorrin Thomas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City’s most complex and distinctive migrant communities. In Puerto Rican Citizen, Lorrin Thomas for the first time unravels the many tensions—historical, racial, political, and economic—that defined the experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II. Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival sources, interviews, and first-person accounts of Puerto Rican life in New York, this book illuminates the rich history of a group that is still largely invisible to many scholars. At the center of Puerto Rican Citizen are Puerto Ricans’ own formulations about political identity, the responses of activists and ordinary migrants to the failed promises of American citizenship, and their expectations of how the American state should address those failures. Complicating our understanding of the discontents of modern liberalism, of race relations beyond black and white, and of the diverse conceptions of rights and identity in American life, Thomas’s book transforms the way we understand this community’s integral role in shaping our sense of citizenship in twentieth-century America.
Author : Rachel M. Gisselquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Challenge of Puerto Rico written by Rachel M. Gisselquist and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Challenge of Puerto Rico" is an account of a long-running question that remains unanswered despite several referenda and a string of island-wide elections: What should Puerto Rico be ? a state, a rather unique commonwealth, some kind of associated state (with what rights and privileges?), or an independent entity? This report provides a series of answers, both in the opening essay and in the edited summary of discussions of a fascinating meeting in Washington.
Author : Gertrude C. Bussey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Problems written by Gertrude C. Bussey and published by . This book was released on 1940* with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carmen Whalen
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592134130
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Diaspora written by Carmen Whalen and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puerto Ricans have a long history of migrating to and building communities in various parts of the United States in search of a better life. From their arrival in Hawai'i in 1900 to the post-World War II era—during which communities flourished throughout the Midwest and New England—the Puerto Rican diaspora has been growing steadily. In fact, the 2000 census shows that almost as many Puerto Ricans live in the United States as in Puerto Rico itself.The contributors to this volume provide an overview of the Puerto Rican experience in America, delving into particular aspects of colonization and citizenship, migration and community building. Each chapter bridges the historical past with contemporary issues. Throughout the text, personal narratives and photographs bring these histories to life, while grappling with underlying causes and critical issues such as racism and employment that shape Puerto Rican life in America.
Author : Edward B. Lockett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Puerto Rico Problem written by Edward B. Lockett and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights. Massachusetts Advisory Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Issues of Concern to Puerto Ricans in Boston and Springfield written by United States Commission on Civil Rights. Massachusetts Advisory Committee and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608464318
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Battle for Paradise written by Naomi Klein and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the ‘battle of utopias’ that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico” (Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) “We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven by communities, not investors. And this book explains, with careful and unbiased reporting, only the efforts of our community activists can answer the paramount question: What type of society do we want to become and who is Puerto Rico for?” —Carmen Yulín Cruz, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich “Puertopians” are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation’s radical, resilient vision for a “just recovery.” All royalties from the sale of this book in English and Spanish go directly to JunteGente, a gathering of Puerto Rican organizations resisting disaster capitalism and advancing a fair and healthy recovery for their island. “Klein chronicles the extraordinary grassroots resistance by the Puerto Rican people against neoliberal privatization and Wall Street greed in the aftermath of the island’s financial meltdown, of hurricane devastation, and of Washington’s imposition of an outside control board over the most important U.S. colony.” —Juan González, cohost of Democracy Now! and author of Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Author : Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230604366
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book None of the Above written by Frances Negrón-Muntaner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out current debates about Puerto Rico. The title simultaneously refers to the results of a non-binding 1998 plebiscite held in San Juan to determine Puerto Rico's political status, the ambiguities that have historically characterized its political agency, and the complexities of its ethnic, national, and cultural identifications.
Author : Gontran Lamberty
Publisher : Language of Science
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Women and Children written by Gontran Lamberty and published by Language of Science. This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging, lengthy collection of papers on Puerto Ricans on the mainland and the island includes Clara E. Rodriguez's historical review of Puerto Rican immigration to the US. Other chapters present information on Puerto Rican fertility, the problem of AIDS, bilingual education, pediatric care, a
Author : Lorrin R Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351678728
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights written by Lorrin R Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans’ political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States to create communities for themselves and their compatriots in times and places where dark-skinned or ‘foreign’ Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose to prominence in the late 1960s was built on a foundation of civil rights activism beginning much earlier in the century. The text contextualizes Puerto Rican activism within the broader context of twentieth-century civil rights movements, while emphasizing the characteristics and goals unique to the Puerto Rican experience. Lucid and insightful, Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights provides a much-needed introduction to a lesser-known but critically important social and political movement.
Author : Gale Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Migration written by Gale Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yarimar Bonilla
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 164259086X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Aftershocks of Disaster written by Yarimar Bonilla and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. Aftershocks collects poems, essays and photos from survivors of Hurricane Maria detailing their determination to persevere. The concept of "aftershocks" is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular event. Aftershocks of Disaster examines the lasting effects of hurricane Maria, not just the effects of the wind or the rain, but delving into what followed: state failure, social abandonment, capitalization on human misery, and the collective trauma produced by the botched response.
