Colonial Subjects
Subtitle: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780520230217
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Immigration & emigration; United States; Migrations; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science; Sociology - General; Sociology; Puerto Rico; Puerto Ricans; Anthropology - General; Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Sociology / General; 20th century; Europe, Western; History
First sentence: This book provides an alternative reading of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans within the "modern world-system" (Wallerstein 1974), or, as Walter Mignolo has recently proposed, the "modern/colonial world-system" (Mignolo 2000).