...Through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, American youth culture and literature grew up with Puerto Rico. The contemporary US tradition of youth literature and media, along with how young people, as authors, narrate their part in social struggle, is inseparable from Puerto...

...Chapter 1 examines two major hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico at the onset of the Great Depression and the politics of natural disaster relief as it existed during the Spanish and U.S. colonial eras before the New Deal. While the hurricanes contributed to the political tensions of the decade...

... working-class neighborhoods and resettle them into newly constructed houses and apartments. Door-to-door surveys of barriada residents conducted in Spanish by PRRA social workers offered public health officials and urban planners in Puerto Rico insight into daily life among the island’s most vulnerable...

... a public authority to administer the water and electric resources of the island. While this local control of natural resources represented a break from previous colonial policy, it should not be viewed as a lessening of U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico, which was in many ways strengthened during this era...

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... at integrating the public mental health system and Spiritism—a popular, religious healing system. It traces social changes in Puerto Rico in the last three decades as the context for changes in the mental health care system and the wider use, especially among professional sectors, of complementary/alternative...

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... the prosperity of the alpine community. Chapter 7 examines three additional cases of nationalist movements in liberal democracies: the Basque Country, Puerto Rico, and Québec. The ob­ject­ ive behind these supplemental case studies is twofold. First, for the Basque Country, the goal is to understand why...

...This chapter examines the back-to-back hurricanes of 2017 that devastated the American territories of the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Virgin Islanders and Puerto Ricans should have qualified for the same economic assistance as other Americans, but they competed with other hard-hit areas...

...Lillian Guerra debunks the conventional stereotypes of the two islands in the U.S. imperial imagination: that of “Cubans’ inclination to chaos and revolution as well as Puerto Ricans’ alleged apathy and political passivity.” Guerra traces how these twin myths on Cuba and Puerto Rico were...

..., of which Cuba and Puerto Rico are the two metaphoric wings. As Gosser Esquilín writes, “to the linguistic, political, and racial differences that separate these islands, especially after 1959, Montero adds the pressing ecological concerns to shine a distinctive and focused Caribbean light.” This chapter...

...Blanca Ortiz-Torres and Mario A. Rodríguez-Cancel analyze the experience of Cubans born in the eastern region of Cuba, who have migrated to Puerto Rico and the United States in the past two decades. The participants in Ortiz-Torres and Rodríguez-Cancel’s interviews usually perceived themselves...

... in the production and circulation of knowledge. This is exemplified with a case study of the control and eradication of the sugar cane mosaic virus in Cuba and Puerto Rico, highlighting the necessary interconnections between local and global strategies for the generation of new scientific knowledge. The chapter...

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...This essay compares two transformative periods in Puerto Rican history: 1898–1900 and 2016–2019. These periods bookend the history of US colonial rule, which is marked by Puerto Rico’s conversion into a lucrative commercial and strategically significant asset of the evolving American empire...

... Anti Defamation League Eain Ziad Abu Fenerty Jim Odeh Rasmea colonialism racialization Puerto Rico Palestine student activism political repression Chicago On May 11, 1978, Chicago’s Jewish community gathered at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle (UICC) to commemorate thirty years...

... after Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico in 2017. I expand this analysis with a personal testimonio regarding the decolonizing role of Latinx Studies as a field that creates a sense of collective belonging for a Diasporican feminist scholar like me, who has embraced Latinidad in the United States...

... colonialism Puerto Rico Ramírez Mirta Valentín Carmen del Moral Solsiree diaspora Puerto Rican schooling Division Street uprising 1966 Young Lords Organization Americanization programs Clark Vincent S Henry Guy V Teachers’ Manual for the Public Schools of Puerto Rico in 1900 American Indians...

...Figure 27.1 La Perla from the walls of Old San Juan, looking east, in 2013. Photograph by author Figure 27.2 Aerial view of La Perla, undated, ca. 1925. The area is still significantly less dense than in the 1933 plan. Archivo General de Puerto Rico, Fondo Obras Públicas, Serie...

...This chapter presents Richard Levins' account of his life and career. Topics covered include Levins' recollections about his childhood; his introduction to Puerto Rico through his wife, Rosario Morales, in 1951; his involvement in the ongoing Cuban struggle for ecological agriculture and economic...