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Hurricane Maria's Aftermath: Redefining Puerto Rico's Colonial Status, Pedro Caban
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
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
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 …
The Puerto Rican Colonial Matrix: The Etiology Of Citizenship, Pedro Caban
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 …