Colonial subjects : Puerto Ricans in a global perspective /
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&#...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- Geopolitics of knowledge and coloniality of power: thinking Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans from the colonial difference
- I: The political economy of Puerto Rico
- 1. The political economy of Puerto Rico in the twentieth century and Puerto Rican postnational strategies
- 2. World cities in the Caribbean: Miami and San Juan
- II: Puerto Rican migration and the Caribbean Diaspora in the United States
- 3. Migration and geopolitics in the greater Antilles: from the Cold War to the post-Cold War
- 4. Puerto Ricans in the United States: a comparative approach
- 5. "Coloniality of power" and racial dynamics: notes on a reinterpretation of Latino Caribbeans in New York City / with Chloe S. Georas
- III: Caribbean colonial migrants in Western Europe and the United States
- 6. Colonial Caribbean migrations to France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and the United States
- 7. "Cultural racism" and colonial Caribbean migrants in core zones of the capitalist world-economy
- 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