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Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898
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Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898
by Cesar J. Ayala

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Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Csar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century...
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American Crossroads #11: Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism
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American Crossroads #11: Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism
by Laura Briggs

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-266) and index....
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Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas
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Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas
by Auro Levins Morales

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Full of medical folklore and healing tales, Remedios presents the history of the many women-and cultures-who have met at the crossroads of the islands of Puerto Rico. Beginning with the First Mother in sub-Saharan Africa more than 200,000 years ago...
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Colonialism and Narrative in Puerto Rico a Study of Characterization in the Novels of Pedro Juan Soto
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Colonialism and Narrative in Puerto Rico a Study of Characterization in the Novels of Pedro Juan Soto
by Victor C. Simpson

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This book analyzes the effect of the colonial experience on the protagonists in the novels of Pedro Juan Soto, a renowned author of the Puerto Rican « Generation of 1950. Arguing -- in keeping with Soto's generational and personal pessimism -- that...
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America's Colony: The Political and Cultural Conflict Between the United States and Puerto Rico (Critical America)
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America's Colony: The Political and Cultural Conflict Between the United States and Puerto Rico (Critical America)
by Pedro Malavet

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"Provides a new and needed approach to understanding the development and current status of Puerto Rico." —Choice "America's Colony incisively analyzes the legal treatment of Puerto Rico as a U.S. territory and the second class treatment of Puerto...
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Delinquency in Puerto Rico: The 1970 Birth Cohort Study
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Delinquency in Puerto Rico: The 1970 Birth Cohort Study
by Dora Nevares and Marvin E. Wolfgang and Paul E. Tracy

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The authors have traced Puerto Rican children born in 1970, both male and female, through the greater San Juan police departments, charting the incidence of delinquency and the number of recurring offenders. These findings are compared to the...
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Turning Out Blackness (05 Edition)
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Turning Out Blackness (05 Edition)
by Rivero

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Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico's...
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Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas
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Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas
by Aurora Levi Morales

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Morales, a teacher of women's studies, offers a history of the many women and cultures who have met at the crossroads of the island of Puerto Rico, beginning with the First Mother in Africa 200,000 years ago. She weaves in her own story of pain and...
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Puerto Rico 1898 the War After the War
by Fernando Pico

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Shaping the Discourse on Space Charity
by Martinez Vergne

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As an inchoate middle class emerged in Puerto Rico in the early nineteenth century, its members sought to control not only public space, but also the people, activities, and even attitudes that filled it. Their instruments were the San Juan town council...
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Puerto Rico's revolt for independence :el Grito de Lares
by Jimenez De Wagenheim

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A reprint of the original edition of 1985 on the insurrection of Sept. 23, 1868. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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History of Puerto Rico (06 Edition)
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History of Puerto Rico (06 Edition)
by Pico



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Colonial Dilemma: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Puerto Rico
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Colonial Dilemma: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Puerto Rico
by Edwin Melendez



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American Colonialism in Puerto Rico
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American Colonialism in Puerto Rico
by Efren Rivera Ramos



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Dona Licha's Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico
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Dona Licha's Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico
by Alfredo Lopez



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Taino Revival Critical Perspectives On
by Gabrie Haslip Viera

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Local/diasporic Taâinos : towards a cultural politics of memory, reality, and imagery / Arlene Dâavila -- Making Indians out of blacks : the revitalization of Taâino identity in contemporary Puerto Rico / Jorge Duany -- What's in a name, an Indian...
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Puerto Rico : an Interpretive History From Pre-columbian Times To 1900 (98 Edition)
by Olga Jimenez De Wageheim

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-285) and index....
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Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
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Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
by Jay Kinsbruner

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""Not of Pure Blood" is an ambitiously extended study of the free people of color in the slave society of Puerto Rico. Adding much to the emerging body of illuminating literature about life and culture both during the slave period and after, it makes...
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The Noise of Infinite Longing: A Memoir of a Family--And an Island
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The Noise of Infinite Longing: A Memoir of a Family--And an Island
by Lopez Torregrosa Lu

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A beautifully written memoir about a Puerto Rican family, whose siblings reunite for the first time upon their mother's death, after having scattered to various places and various lives after they reached early adulthood. It is also a universal story...
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Puerto Ricans an Annotated Bibliography
by Paquita Vivo



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