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Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective
Ramon Grosfoguel
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Description for Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective
Paperback. This text compares Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. It examines the position: of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean; of Puerto Ricans in the USA; and the position of colonial migrants compared to noncolonial migrants in the world system. Num Pages: 283 pages, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJP; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
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'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.
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'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
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520230217
SKU
V9780520230217
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99-1
About Ramon Grosfoguel
Ramon 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 ... Read more
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