Colonial subjects : Puerto Ricans in a global perspective / / Ramon Grosfoguel

• Autore: Grosfoguel Ramon
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.8/7307295/09043
• Soggetto topico: Puerto Ricans - United States - History - 20th century; Puerto Ricans - Migrations - History - 20th century; Puerto Ricans - Europe, Western - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Puerto Rico Emigration and immigration History 20th century; United States Emigration and immigration History 20th century; Europe, Western Emigration and immigration History 20th century; Puerto Rico Colonial influence; Puerto Rico Social conditions 1952-; Caribbean Area Colonial influence
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-242) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Geopolitics of Knowledge and Coloniality of Power; part one:l The Political Economy of Puerto Rico; part two: Puerto Rican Migration and the Caribbean Diapora in the United States; part three: Caribbean Colonial Migrants in Western Europe and the United States; Appendix; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Colonial subjects
• ISBN: 0-520-92754-0; 1-59734-550-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823084003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II