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The Capital Insurrection And The Puerto Rican Summer Uprising, Pedro Caban Apr 2020

The Capital Insurrection And The Puerto Rican Summer Uprising, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

The Capital insurrection in Washington DC was not an anomaly in American Politics. It was the latest instance of a history of violence by white supremacists to preserve their power and status at the cost of democracy. The uprising in Puerto Rico in Summer 2019 was a massive social movement to restore democracy by removing a corrupt government that was unaccountable to the people,


Robert H. Pruyn: An Albany Yankee In The Tycoon's Court, Susanna Fessler Oct 2019

Robert H. Pruyn: An Albany Yankee In The Tycoon's Court, Susanna Fessler

Campus Conversations in Standish

Robert H. Pruyn (1815-1882), a "good Dutchman" of Albany, served as the second American foreign minister to Japan, 1861-1865. This was a time of civil war in the States, and a time of great civil unrest in Japan. Pruyn prided himself both on his diplomacy and his appreciation of Japanese culture. This talk will focus on some of the lesser-known details of his experience as revealed in his many personal letters home, held by the Albany Institute of History and Art.


Dynamic Duos: Interrogating Latin American Curricula Through Faculty-Librarian Partnerships, Jesús Alonso-Regalado, Daniel Arbino, Pamela Espinosa De Los Monteros, Marisol Ramos, Christine Vassallo-Oby, Charles Venator-Santiago, Lisa Voigt May 2019

Dynamic Duos: Interrogating Latin American Curricula Through Faculty-Librarian Partnerships, Jesús Alonso-Regalado, Daniel Arbino, Pamela Espinosa De Los Monteros, Marisol Ramos, Christine Vassallo-Oby, Charles Venator-Santiago, Lisa Voigt

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

The ever-changing education and information landscape has brought with it an increased focus on teaching pedagogy and curriculum design. In response, Latin American Studies faculty are pursuing creative pedagogical directions and approaches in areas such as digital scholarship and information literacy in partnership with librarians and archivists. This roundtable will explore faculty-librarians practice-based initiatives focusing on issues related to the Global North and South. The uniqueness of this roundtable is that both the teaching faculty and the librarian representing each academic institution will be present. The University at Albany will discuss the redesign of a Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. …


Hurricane Maria's Aftermath: Redefining Puerto Rico's Colonial Status, Pedro Caban Feb 2019

Hurricane Maria's Aftermath: Redefining Puerto Rico's Colonial Status, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

The devastation wrought by a historic storm posed the damage already inflicted by decades of economic policies that have treated the island like a second-class territory.


Promesa, Puerto Rico And The American Empire, Pedro Caban May 2018

Promesa, Puerto Rico And The American Empire, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

As the United States ascended to hyper-power status during the late 1970s, it changed colonial policy in Puerto Rico. The change, which included the elimination of favorable tax legislation and demilitarization, devastated Puerto Rico’s economy. Puerto Rico borrowed heavily in a failed effort to offset the dramatic decline in capital inflows. The federal government enacted PROMESA after Puerto Rico announced it could not repay the debt. The law was designed to restore Puerto Rico to financial solvency by imposing oppressive austerity measures. PROMESA was a watershed event because it stripped Puerto Rico of the limited sovereignty the federal government had …


Puerto Ricans As Contingent Citizens: Shifting Mandated Identities And Imperial Disjunctures, Pedro Caban Jan 2017

Puerto Ricans As Contingent Citizens: Shifting Mandated Identities And Imperial Disjunctures, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

In 1917 the United States Congress imposed citizenship on the inhabitants of Puerto Rico. It was a contingent citizenship subject to legal redefi nition and tailored to Puerto Rico’s colonial status within the U.S. empire. Many scholars have argued that racism was determinative in the decision to consign Puerto Ricans a diminished citizenship. But it is necessary to point out that the U.S. had crafted an adaptive racial narrative that distinguished among racialized people under its sovereignty in terms of their capacities for self-government and ability to comprehend Anglo-Saxon political and legal institutions. Moreover, in addition to racism, strategic considerations …


Maria Will Fundamentally Change Us Policy Toward Puerto Rico, Pedro Caban Jan 2017

Maria Will Fundamentally Change Us Policy Toward Puerto Rico, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

An article titled "Maria will Fundamentally Change US Policy Toward Puerto Rico" by Pedro Caban.


Puerto Rico’S Long Fall From ‘Shining Star’ To The ‘Greece’ Of The Caribbean, Pedro Caban Jun 2015

Puerto Rico’S Long Fall From ‘Shining Star’ To The ‘Greece’ Of The Caribbean, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

An article titled "Puerto Rico’s long fall from ‘shining star’ to the ‘Greece’ of the Caribbean" by Pedro Caban.


The Puerto Rican Colonial Matrix: The Etiology Of Citizenship, Pedro Caban Apr 2013

The Puerto Rican Colonial Matrix: The Etiology Of Citizenship, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

The extension of U.S. citizenship to Puerto Rico has been the object of voluminous scholarly and legal research. The present essay serves as both an introduction to and analysis of the four articles that comprise this special issue of CENTRO Journal. Each of the articles employs a different analytical lens to focus on the intersecting dimensions of citizenship, colonialism, and empire. The essay identifies common themes among the articles with the aim of presenting a unified narrative of the individual contributions. It historicizes the study of Puerto Rican citizenship status by reviewing the modalities of political exclusion the U.S. practiced …


Critical Junctures And Puerto Rican Studies, Pedro Caban Jan 2011

Critical Junctures And Puerto Rican Studies, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


“Diversity”—Demography, Culture, And Education For A Changing New York, Pedro Caban Jan 2010

“Diversity”—Demography, Culture, And Education For A Changing New York, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

An Introduction written by Pedro Cabán of the book chapter titled " 'Diversity' - Demography, Culture, and Education for a Changing New York". The book is titled "SUNY at Sixty: The Promise of the State University of New York" ed. by Bruce Leslie, and others.


Puerto Rican Studies: Changing Islands Of Knowledge, Pedro Caban Jan 2009

Puerto Rican Studies: Changing Islands Of Knowledge, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

This essay discusses the factors that help explain the paradox of Puerto Rican Studies; on one hand the sustained institutional resistance to the establishment of viable Puerto Rican Studies academic units, and on the other, the growing acceptance of Puerto Rican Studies scholarship as a viable contributor to multidisciplinary research and teaching. The essay reviews the context in which Puerto Rican Studies units were established and discusses the array of factors that curtailed their institutional development. It also traces the trajectory of Puerto Rican Studies scholarship. It summarizes the diverse research priorities and competing intellectual currents in the prevailing scholarship. …


Puerto Rican Revolutionary Organizations, Pedro Caban Jan 2005

Puerto Rican Revolutionary Organizations, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Puerto Rican Home Country Project, Pedro Caban Jan 2005

Puerto Rican Home Country Project, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Americanization, Pedro Caban Jan 2005

Americanization, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, Pedro Caban Jan 2005

Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Puerto Ricans, Pedro Caban, Vilma Santiago Irizarry Jan 2005

Puerto Ricans, Pedro Caban, Vilma Santiago Irizarry

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Cointelpro, Pedro Caban Jan 2005

Cointelpro, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Puerto Rico, Colonialism In, Pedro Caban Jan 2005

Puerto Rico, Colonialism In, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Puerto Rican Nationalist Uprising, Pedro Caban Jan 2005

Puerto Rican Nationalist Uprising, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


From Challenge To Absorption: The Changing Face Of Latino Studies, Pedro Caban Oct 2003

From Challenge To Absorption: The Changing Face Of Latino Studies, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

Over the last three decades Latino studies scholarship has gained increased academic acceptance. However, many administrators continue to doubt the wisdom of sustaining autonomous Latino studies departments, and are devising alternative approaches for incorporating Latino-based knowledge into the university’s mission. This article discusses the academy’s response to the emergence of Latino studies and explores a range of consequences for the field of two institutional arrangements that universities appear to privilege: the horizontal fusion with Latin American Studies, and a vertical absorption into centers for the study of race and ethnic or absorption into American studies.


Common Origins/"Different" Identities In Two Kaqchikel Maya Towns, Walter E. Little Jan 2003

Common Origins/"Different" Identities In Two Kaqchikel Maya Towns, Walter E. Little

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Kaqchikel Maya residents of San Antonio Aguas Calientes and Santa Catarina Barahona (neighboring towns in Guatemala) tell the same origin story. This story is used to root historically their concepts of collective identity and community. However, residents in each town hold that those in the other town have no real claim to the story. Both towns can equally claim this origin story, but the debate between residents of these towns offers an opportunity to discuss how the meaning of place is related to the historical and ethnographic contexts of which that place's residents are part. By weighing the story and …


Performing Tourism: Maya Women's Strategies, Walter E. Little Jan 2003

Performing Tourism: Maya Women's Strategies, Walter E. Little

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Walter Little is assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany and codirector of Oxlajuj Aj, Tulane University’s Kaqchikel Language and Culture class in Guatemala. He has conducted fieldwork among Maya handicrafts producers and vendors since 1992 on issues related to tourism, gender roles, and identity performance, and this research is the subject of his book, Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity (Austin: University of Texas, 2004).


Puerto Rico: State Formation In A Colonial Context, Pedro Caban Dec 2002

Puerto Rico: State Formation In A Colonial Context, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

This article examines U.S. Puerto Rico relations during the American century through the prism of the colonial state and identifies eight periods of fundamental political and economic change that altered the conduct of U.S. colonial practice in Puerto Rico. These periods witnessed the emergence, ascendancy and decline of local political coalitions that competed for control of the control state. The coalitions articulated distinct economic projects and pursued different strategies to resolve Puerto Rico's status as an unincorporated territorial possession. Each period was also marked by insular economic restructuring precipitated by shifts in U.S. fiscal policies and changes in the economy, …


Bombs, Ballots, And Nationalism: Vieques And The Politics Of Colonialism, Pedro Caban Apr 2002

Bombs, Ballots, And Nationalism: Vieques And The Politics Of Colonialism, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Subjects And Immigrants During The Progressive Era, Pedro Caban Oct 2001

Subjects And Immigrants During The Progressive Era, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Home As A Place Of Exhibition And Performance: Mayan Household Transformations In Guatemala, Walter E. Little Jan 2000

Home As A Place Of Exhibition And Performance: Mayan Household Transformations In Guatemala, Walter E. Little

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the town of San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala, has been incorporated into transnational movements of people, commodities, and ideas through tourism, development, and religious evangelism. The Kaqchikel Mayas living there have long looked outward from their community as they embraced, ignored, or criticized these global flows. Contemporary Kaqchikel Mayas have incorporated these global flows into the organization and maintenance of their households, while giving them a local interpretation. Some families have made their homes a place to enact their culture through exhibitions and performances for tourists. Such performances are indicative of the strategies …


Puerto Rico At A Political Crossroad, Pedro Caban Jun 1991

Puerto Rico At A Political Crossroad, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Getting Unstruck On Status: The Politics Of Decolonialization, Pedro Caban Jun 1991

Getting Unstruck On Status: The Politics Of Decolonialization, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


'Decolonizing' Puerto Rico, U.S. Style, Pedro Caban Apr 1990

'Decolonizing' Puerto Rico, U.S. Style, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.