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Book Synopsis The Challenge of Puerto Rico by : Rachel M. Gisselquist
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.
Book Synopsis Puerto Rico and the United States -- a challenge by : Luis Alberto Ferré
Download or read book Puerto Rico and the United States -- a challenge written by Luis Alberto Ferré and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico by : A. W. Maldonado
Download or read book Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico written by A. W. Maldonado and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is to blame for the economic and political crisis in Puerto Rico—the United States or Puerto Rico? This book provides a fascinating historical perspective on the problem and an unequivocal answer on who is to blame. In this engaging and approachable book, journalist A. W. Maldonado charts the rise and fall of the Puerto Rican economy and explains how a litany of bad political and fiscal policy decisions in Washington and Puerto Rico destroyed an economic miracle. Under Operation Bootstrap in the 1950s and '60s, the rapid transformation and industrialization of the Puerto Rican economy was considered a “wonder of human history,” a far cry from the economic “death spiral” the island’s governor described in 2015. Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico is the story of how the demise of an obscure tax policy that encouraged investment and economic growth led to escalating budget deficits and the government’s shocking default of its $70 billion debt. Maldonado also discusses the extent of the devastation from Hurricane Maria in 2017, the massive street protests during 2019, and the catastrophic earthquakes in January 2020. After illuminating the century of misunderstanding between Puerto Rico and the United States—the root cause of the economic crisis and the island’s gridlocked debates about its political status—Maldonado concludes with projections about the future of the relationship. He argues that, in the end, the economic, fiscal, and political crises are the result of the breakdown and failure of Puerto Rican self-government. Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico is written for a wide audience, including students, economists, politicians, and general readers, all of whom will find it interesting and thought provoking.
Book Synopsis The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City by : Edgardo Meléndez
Download or read book The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City written by Edgardo Meléndez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the “Puerto Rican problem” campaign and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that arose in reaction to the entry of Puerto Rican migrants to the city after 1945. The “problem” narrative influenced their incorporation in New York City and other regions of the United States where they settled. The anti-Puerto Rican campaign led to the formulation of public policies by the governments of Puerto Rico and New York City seeking to ease their incorporation in the city. Notions intrinsic to this narrative later entered American academia (like the “culture of poverty”) and American popular culture (e.g., West Side Story), which reproduced many of the stereotypes associated with Puerto Ricans at that time and shaped the way in which Puerto Ricans were studied and perceived by Americans.
Download or read book Puerto Rico written by Nancy Morris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-10-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses historical and interview data to trace the development of Puerto Rican identity in the 20th century. It analyzes how and why Puerto Ricans have maintained a clear sense of distinctiveness in the face of direct and indirect pressures on their identity. After gaining sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898, the United States undertook a sustained campaign to Americanize the island. Despite 50 years of active Americanization and another 40 years of continued United States sovereignty over the island, Puerto Ricans retain a sense of themselves as distinctly and proudly Puerto Rican. This study examines the symbols of Puerto Rican identity, and their use in the complex politics of the island. It shows that identity is dynamic, it is experienced differently by individuals across Puerto Rican society, and that the key symbols of Puerto Rican identity have not remained static over time. Through the study of Puerto Rico, the book investigates and challenges the widely-heard argument that the inevitable result of the export of U.S. mass media and consumer culture throughout the world is the weakening of cultural identities in receiving societies. The book develops the idea that external pressure on collective identity may strengthen that identity rather than, as is often assumed, diminish it.
Download or read book Puerto Rico written by Luis Gautier and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puerto Rico is experiencing its deepest economic crisis since the first half of the twentieth century. The unique political and economic relationship between the US and Puerto Rico arguably plays a fundamental role in this crisis. With these in mind and given the imposition of the Financial Oversight Management Board by the US government, this book presents policy recommendations to help Puerto Rico achieve sustainable development. A set of partial equilibrium models are employed to study important industrial policy options and trade issues. This book also discusses the potential role of market-based environmental policies as well as issues of income convergence. The method of analysis to study the Puerto Rico–US relationship presented in this book is entirely new to the literature and the analysis of market-based environmental policy. The overarching result is that it is in the best interest of Puerto Rico and the US to set economic policies consistent with an equilibrium characterized by political independence (i.e., national sovereignty) for Puerto Rico. The potential for sustainable economic growth and development is latent in Puerto Rico’s economy. But for factors of production to be used effectively and efficiently, Puerto Rico’s economy requires access to international markets at sufficiently lower transaction costs, a condition consistent primarily in an equilibrium characterized by political independence. Access to international markets at sufficiently lower costs would help, inter alia, restore market credibility, regain access to credit markets at bearable costs and achieve important efficiency gains. This book argues that international trade ought to be at the center of development and growth policy. Importantly, it argues on the grounds of efficiency that not only is it in the best interest of the US to help Puerto Rico move gradually towards an equilibrium consistent with political independence, but that a statehood-like equilibrium is inefficient, particularly if a higher degree of access to global markets is at the center of policy formulation. I hope the discussion presented in this book signifies an important contribution to the policy debate in order to address Puerto Rico’s economic challenges.
Book Synopsis Seams of Empire by : Carlos Alamo-Pastrana
Download or read book Seams of Empire written by Carlos Alamo-Pastrana and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A truly excellent contribution that unearths new and largely unknown evidence about relationships between Puerto Ricans and African-Americans and white Americans in the continental United States and Puerto Rico. Alamo-Pastrana revises how race is to be studied and understood across national, cultural, colonial, and hierarchical cultural relations.”—Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores, author of Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory. Departing from these accounts, early twentieth-century writers, journalists, and activists scrutinized both Puerto Rico’s and the United States’s institutionalized racism and colonialism in an attempt to spur reform, leaving an archive of oft-overlooked political writings. In Seams of Empire, Carlos Alamo-Pastrana uses racial imbrication as a framework for reading this archive of little-known Puerto Rican, African American, and white American radicals and progressives, both on the island and the continental United States. By addressing the concealed power relations responsible for national, gendered, and class differences, this method of textual analysis reveals key symbolic and material connections between marginalized groups in both national spaces and traces the complexity of race, racism, and conflict on the edges of empire.
Book Synopsis Workshop, U. S. A. by : William J. Dorvillier
Download or read book Workshop, U. S. A. written by William J. Dorvillier and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puerto Rico written by Gordon K. Lewis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since its first publication over forty years ago Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean by Gordon K. Lewis has established itself, and even today, remains the definitive book on that Caribbean island. Lewis treats the subject historically and descriptively; on the one hand, it is an account of Puerto Rico as a colony, first under Spain and after 1898, under the United States. On the other hand, it is a systematic analysis of contemporary Puerto Rican life, including its politics, economic organisation and socio-political make-up, which is as relevant for this new edition as it was forty years ago. The book is also an in-depth attempt to show the political, social, cultural and even the psychological dimensions of American imperialism, rather than a mere case study of US Federalism or as a so-called 'showcase of democracy'."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Coronavirus Challenge for Puerto Rico by :
Download or read book The Coronavirus Challenge for Puerto Rico written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introduction to Puerto Rico by : Gilad James, PhD
Download or read book Introduction to Puerto Rico written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island and an unincorporated territory of the United States. The island is located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the British Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico has a tropical climate and is known for its beautiful beaches and crystal-clear waters, making it a popular tourist destination. The island is densely populated, with over three million people living there, making it the third-largest island by population in the United States. Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States and have been since 1917. The island has a unique cultural mix of African, Taíno, and European influences. The official language is Spanish, and English is also widely spoken. Puerto Rico's economy is mainly based on manufacturing, tourism, and services. The island has a distinct political status, remaining as an unincorporated territory and not being granted statehood or independence.
Book Synopsis Puerto Rico's Political Status by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Download or read book Puerto Rico's Political Status written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :576 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (9 download)
Book Synopsis Independence for Puerto Rico by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs
Download or read book Independence for Puerto Rico written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leyes de la ... Asamblea Legislativa Del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico by : Puerto Rico
Download or read book Leyes de la ... Asamblea Legislativa Del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico written by Puerto Rico and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special sessions.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :586 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs
Download or read book Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Staff Report to the Interdepartmental Committee on Puerto Rico by : United States. Interdepartmental Committee on Puerto Rico
Download or read book Staff Report to the Interdepartmental Committee on Puerto Rico written by United States. Interdepartmental Committee on Puerto Rico and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Investigation of Political, Economic, and Social Conditions in Puerto Rico by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Download or read book Investigation of Political, Economic, and Social Conditions in Puerto Rico written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
