Colonial Subjects Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective [Paperback]

Colonial Subjectsis 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. Ram?n 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.

Ram?n Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor ofThe Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century(2002),Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York(2001), andPuerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism(1997). He is a research associate of the Maison des Science de l'Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center in New York.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction:

PART ONE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUERTO RICO
1. The Political Economy of Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century and Puerto Rican Postnational Strategies
2. World Cities in the Caribbean: Miami and San Juan

PART TWO: PUERTO RICAN MIGRATION AND THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES
3. Migration and Geopolitics in the Greater Antilles: From the Cold War to the PostCold War
4. Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Comparative Approach
5. Coloniality of Power and Racial Dynamics: Notes on a Reinterpretation of Latino Caribbeans in New York City (with Chloe S. Georas)

PART THREE: CARIBBEAN COLONIAL MIGRANTS IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
6. Colonial Caribbean Migrations to France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and the United States
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