Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective / Edition 1

by Ramon Grosfoguel

Overview

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. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes. He offers a comprehensive and well-reasoned framework for understanding the position of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, the position of Puerto Ricans in the United States, and the position of colonial migrants compared to noncolonial migrants in the world system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520230217
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	10/30/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

Ramón Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century (2002), Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York (2001), and Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism (1997). He is a research associate of the Maison des Science de l'Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center in New York.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction:

PART ONE: 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

PART TWO: 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)

PART THREE: 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

Appendix
References
Index