Colonial subjects : Puerto Ricans in a global perspective / Ramon Grosfoguel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grosfoguel, Ramón.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puerto Ricans--United States--History--20th century.

Puerto Ricans.

Puerto Ricans--Migrations--History--20th century.

Puerto Ricans--Europe, Western--History--20th century.

Puerto Rico--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Puerto Rico.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

United States.

Europe, Western--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Europe, Western.

Puerto Rico--Colonial influence.

Puerto Rico--Social conditions--1952-.

Caribbean Area--Colonial influence.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramon Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes.

Contents:

Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Geopolitics of Knowledge and Coloniality of Power; part one:l The Political Economy of Puerto Rico; part two: Puerto Rican Migration and the Caribbean Diapora in the United States; part three: Caribbean Colonial Migrants in Western Europe and the United States; Appendix; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-242) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92754-0

1-59734-550-4

OCLC:

475930342