"Subject people" and colonial discourses : economic transformation and social disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947 / Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santiago-Valles, Kelvin A., 1951-

Series:

SUNY series in society and culture in Latin America

SUNY series in society and culture in Latin America "Subject people" and colonial discourses

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Crime.

Social conflict--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Social conflict.

Puerto Rico--Social conditions.

Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico--Economic conditions.

Crime--History--20th century--Puerto Rico.

Social conflict--History--20th century--Puerto Rico.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 304 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Santiago-Valles explores how the new regime's socio-economic, political, and signification systems socially constructed the laboring poor of this Caribbean island as "wayward" subjects. Critically drawing on recent theorizations of post-structuralism, feminism, critical criminology, subaltern studies, and post-coloniality he examines the mechanisms through which colonized subjects become recognized, contained, and represented as subordinate. He analyzes the structures of social control in Latin America by focusing on the evolving definitions of deviance, social unrest, and economic development. At issue are the cultural practices that necessarily accompanied and aided U.S. colonialist enterprises in Puerto Rico during a shift in the world capitalist market and in geopolitical hegemony with the Caribbean.

Contents:

1. Post-Coloniality, Corrective Studies, and the (Re)making of History

pt. I. 1898-1921. 2. A Contest of Structures. 3. The Contradictory Mechanisms of Preservation and Transformation. 4. The Rise of the "Evil-Disposed" Classes, 1898-1909. 5. "Waging Battle Against Numerous Evils," 1910-1921

pt. II. 1922-1947. 6. "Creating a Discontented Working Class," 1922-1929. 7. "The Age of Criminal Saturation," 1930-1939. 8. "Rage Concentrated Twice Over," 1940-1947. 9. The Subjects in Question.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-295) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4384-1865-5

0-585-04428-7