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Pages: 367
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 293
Pages: 293
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Tells the tragic story of Puerto Ricans who sought the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood but instead received racist imperial governan
Language: en
Pages: 349
Pages: 349
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-18 - Publisher: University of California Press
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the tw
Language: en
Pages: 314
Pages: 314
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-10 - Publisher: Bold Type Books
A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing
Language: en
Pages: 350
Pages: 350
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Borderline Citizens explores the intersection of U.S. colonial power and Puerto Rican migration. Robert C. McGreevey examines a series of confrontations in the
