Women and Puerto Rican Politics
Author | : Isabel Picó de Hernández |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Isabel Picó de Hernández |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amílcar Antonio Barreto |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813063825 |
"A [book] rich in detail and analysis, which anyone wanting to understand the language debate in Puerto Rico will find essential."--Arlene Davila, Syracuse University This is the first book in English to analyze the controversial language policies passed by the Puerto Rican government in the 1990s. It is also the first to explore the connections between language and cultural identity and politics on the Caribbean island. Shortly after the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898, both English and Spanish became official languages of the territory. In 1991, the Puerto Rican government abolished bilingualism, claiming that "Spanish only" was necessary to protect the culture from North American influences. A few years later bilingualism was restored and English was promoted in public schools, with supporters asserting that the dual languages symbolized the island’s commitment to live in harmony with the United States. While the islanders’ sense of ethnic pride was growing, economic dependency enticed them to maintain close ties to the United States. This book shows that officials in both San Juan and Washington, along with English-first groups, used the language laws as weapons in the battle over U.S.-Puerto Rican relations and the volatile debate over statehood. It will be of interest to linguists, political scientists, students of contemporary cultural politics, and political activists in discussions of nationalism in multilingual communities.
Author | : Felix Matos-Rodriguez |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317461606 |
A survey of the topics in gender and history of Puerto Rican women. Organized chronologically and covering the 19th and 20th centuries, it deal with issues of slavery, emancipation, wage work, women and politics, women's suffrage, industrialization, migration and Puerto Rican women in New York.
Author | : Petra R. Rivera-Rideau |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2015-09-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0822375257 |
Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego Calderón criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaetón, she demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the African diaspora.
Author | : Altagracia Ortiz |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1996-10-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781439901434 |
"Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor" is the only comprehensive study of the role of Puerto Rican women workers in the evolution of a transnational labor force in the twentieth century. This book examines Puerto Rican women workers, both in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. mainland. It contains a range of information--historical, ethnographic, and statistical. The contributors provide insights into the effects of migration and unionization on women's work, taking into account U.S. colonialism and globalization of capitalism throughout the century as well as the impact of Operation Bootstrap. The essays are arranged in chronological order to reveal the evolutionary nature of women's work and the fluctuations in migration, technology, and the economy. This one-of-a-kind collection will be a valuable resource for those interested in women's studies, ethnic studies, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies, as well as labor studies.
Author | : Jose Cruz |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010-06-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1439904006 |
Identity politics as a positive force in political mobilization and access to power.
Author | : Yarimar Bonilla |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 164259086X |
Two years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. Aftershocks collects poems, essays and photos from survivors of Hurricane Maria detailing their determination to persevere. The concept of "aftershocks" is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular event. Aftershocks of Disaster examines the lasting effects of hurricane Maria, not just the effects of the wind or the rain, but delving into what followed: state failure, social abandonment, capitalization on human misery, and the collective trauma produced by the botched response.
Author | : James Jennings |
Publisher | : VNR AG |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780313238017 |
Author | : Eileen Findlay |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822323969 |
The interrelationship between sexuality and national identity during Puerto Rico's transition from Spanish to U.S. colonialism.
Author | : Maurine H. Beasley |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498519504 |
This book presents the story of Ruby A. Black, a feminist who broke new ground for women in Washington journalism in the 1920s and 1930s as a correspondent for a Puerto Rican newspaper and the first biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt. It offers access to the secret correspondence that shows how Black used her friendship with Roosevelt to advance the political career of Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico's first elected governor. The book describes Black’s effort, ultimately unsuccessful, to become both a well-regarded journalist and a political operative in the nation’s capital, a feat particularly difficult for a woman. It contends Black’s closeness to Roosevelt proved both a help and a hindrance to Black’s stature as a journalist.