Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jorge Duany provides a compendium to the island's rich history, culture, politics, economy, and diaspora. Written in an accessible question-and-answer format, Duany covers the history of the island as well as the demographic, economic, political, and cultural features of contemporary Puerto Rico. He examines the inner workings of the Commonwealth government and the island's relationship to the United States. New material examines the multiple issues affecting Puerto Rico in the last decade, including a prolonged recession, the devastating impact of two hurricanes, and the largest migrant wave ever recorded from Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jorge Duany provides a compendium to the island's rich history, culture, politics, economy, and diaspora. Written in an accessible question-and-answer format, Duany covers the history of the island as well as the demographic, economic, political, and cultural features of contemporary Puerto Rico. He examines the inner workings of the Commonwealth government and the island's relationship to the United States. New material examines the multiple issues affecting Puerto Rico in the last decade, including a prolonged recession, the devastating impact of two hurricanes, and the largest migrant wave ever recorded from Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®

by Jorge Duany
Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®

by Jorge Duany

Overview

In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jorge Duany provides a compendium to the island's rich history, culture, politics, economy, and diaspora. Written in an accessible question-and-answer format, Duany covers the history of the island as well as the demographic, economic, political, and cultural features of contemporary Puerto Rico. He examines the inner workings of the Commonwealth government and the island's relationship to the United States. New material examines the multiple issues affecting Puerto Rico in the last decade, including a prolonged recession, the devastating impact of two hurricanes, and the largest migrant wave ever recorded from Puerto Rico.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780197782118
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/01/2024
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know®
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Jorge Duany is Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University. Born in Cuba and raised in Panama and Puerto Rico, he previously served as Acting Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (UPR). He also served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the journal, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, at UPR. He is the author of 22 books and has published extensively on migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in Cuba, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Puerto Rico—A Stateless Nation

El Vaivén: Moving Back and Forth

1. Puerto Rico before 1898

2. Puerto Rico under US Rule, 1898-1952

3. Puerto Rico as a US Commonwealth since 1952: Politics and the Economy

4. Puerto Rico as a US Commonwealth since 1952: Population and Culture

5. The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States: History, Demography, and the Economy

6. The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States: Culture and Politics

7. An Island in Crisis, 2017-23

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