...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...

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...This chapter provides a panoramic view of transnational migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, emphasizing several themes. First, the two neighboring countries have had extensive ties at least since the days of Spanish colonialism. Second, although political disturbances initiated...

...This book explores the history of Puerto Rico since 1898, the year it came under direct U.S. rule. It considers why Puerto Rico has remained a colony of a fundamentally noncolonial imperialism while most colonies in the world have gained either political independence or have been formally...

...This chapter examines the United States' colonization of Puerto Rico in 1898 and its immediate consequences for island politics, economy, and society. After a brief background that led to the signing of the Treaty of Paris requiring Spain to cede Puerto Rico to the United States, it describes...

...This chapter examines the transformation of Puerto Rico's economy between 1898 and 1934 under U.S. rule. It begins by looking at the advent of “free trade” between Puerto Rico and the United States, made possible by the passage of the Foraker Act of 1900, and its impact on industries as well...

...This chapter examines Puerto Rico's political and social struggles under U.S. rule in the midst of economic changes between 1900 and 1930. It begins by focusing on the Partido Republicano in the early years of U.S. rule, which covered the period 1900–1904. The Partido Republicano and Partido...

... by assessing the crisis that hit Puerto Rico's sugar industry, political parties, and the labor movement. In particular, the chapter discusses the victory of the Coalición of the increasingly conservative Partido Socialista and part of the Partido Republicano in the 1932 elections that weakened the Partido...

...This chapter examines the literary and cultural debates that dominated Puerto Rico during the 1930s, focusing on a group of men and women of letters who redefined the island's intellectual landscape: the generatión del treinta. More specifically, it considers the urgency with which...

...This chapter examines the impact of economic recession and the rise of social movements on Puerto Rico's economic and/or political dynamics, especially on the hegemony of the Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), during the period 1960–1975. It looks at these social and political upheavals, from...

...This chapter examines Puerto Rico's economic stagnation and the political standoff between Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) and a new statehood movement, armed with a new discourse and led by Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, between 1976 and 1992. It first considers the initiatives of PPD Governor...

...This chapter examines recent debates in Puerto Rico concerning neonationalism, postmodernism, and other issues, and their impact on the island's literary and cultural landscape. It discusses three trends that played a major role in these debates and which are related to questions of Puerto Rican...

...Puerto Rico's history in the American Century can be divided into four periods that closely coincide with the phases of the U.S. and world capitalist economies since the mid-1890s. Due to the island's status as a possession of but not part of the United States, the Puerto Rican economy...

...This chapter discusses how the penetration of U.S. capital into the economies of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico transformed the technological base of sugar production. The new mills featured increased grinding capacities, internal railroad networks, the introduction of internal...

...This chapter discusses the occupation of Cuba and Puerto Rico by the United States in 1898 and the gradual expansion of imperial influence over the Dominican Republic, which culminated in the occupation of that island by U.S. Marines in 1916–24. This, in turn, led to an impressive expansion...

...This chapter examines the salsa boom in the Caribbean during the 1970s, paying particular attention to Puerto Rico's creation of a very particular salsa of its own, and the emergence of Santo Domingo and Venezuela as primordial places for the production and development of original salsa...

.... This translation of Cesar Miguel Rondon's El libro de la salsa tells the engaging story of salsa's roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, and of its emergence and development in the 1960s as a distinct musical movement in New York. The book presents salsa...

...This book explores the government of so-called superstitions in Puerto Rico and Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on religious practitioners who found themselves at the center of acrimonious debates in newspapers, learned journals, and courthouses. It looks at the role...

...Some of the most salient religious dramas that unfolded in Cuba and Puerto Rico in the twentieth century, including Marian apparitions in the southwestern corner of the island, involved journalists and publicists. Indeed, the press had a role in the performance of miracles. This chapter examines...

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