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Book History of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement  19th century

Download or read book History of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement 19th century written by Harold J. Lidin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement

Download or read book History of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement written by Harold J. Lidin and published by . This book was released on 1988-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Puerto Rican Movement

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  • Author : Andrés Torres
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781566396189
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book The Puerto Rican Movement written by Andrés Torres and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little attention has been paid to the Latino movements of the 1960s and 1970s in the literature of social movements. This volume is the first significant look at the organizations that emerged in the late 1960s to promote Puerto Rican independence and the radical transformation of U.S. society. The Puerto Rican movement was a response to U.S. colonialism on the island and to the poverty and discrimination faced by most Puerto Ricans on the mainland. This anthology looks at the organizations that emerged to combat these two problems in such places as Boston, Chicago, Hartford, New York, and Philadelphia. Almost all the contributors worked with the organizations they describe. Interviews with such key figures as Elizam Escobar, Piri Thomas, and Luis Fuentes, as well as accounts by people active in the gay/lesbian, African American, and white Left movements, create a vivid picture of why and how people became radicalized and how their ideals intersected with their group's own dynamics.

Book Right Wing Women in Chile

Download or read book Right Wing Women in Chile written by Margaret Power and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patria

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  • Author : Edgardo Meléndez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781945662287
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Patria written by Edgardo Meléndez and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Patria : Puerto Rican Revolutionary Exiles in Late Nineteenth Century New York examines the activities and ideals of Puerto Rican revolutionary exiles in New York City at the end of the nineteenth century. The study centers on the writings, news reports, and announcements by and about Puerto Ricans in Patria, the official newspaper of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. Both were founded and led by the Cuban patriot José Martí. The book looks at the political, organizational, and ideological ties between Cuban and Puerto Rican revolutionaries in exile, as well as the events surrounding the war of 1898. It argues that the major underpinnings of twentieth-century Puerto Rico's nationalist thought were already present in the Patria writings of Puerto Ricans. The newspaper also offers a glimpse into the daily life and community of Puerto Rican exiles in late nineteenth-century New York City. All the writings in Patria about Puerto Rico are presented in their full English translation. Finally, the book presents a historical overview of how the Puerto Rican exile community living in the city developed"--

Book The Struggle for the Independence of Puerto Rico

Download or read book The Struggle for the Independence of Puerto Rico written by Juan Antonio Corretjer and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Struggle for the Independence of Puerto Rico" (La lucha por la independencia de Puerto Rico) is an essay on the history of Puerto Rico's attempts at liberation from colonial rule from Spain, in the 19th century, and from United States colonialism from 1898 to the present. Written in 1949, not only is it an outline for historians, but it is also an eyewitness account of Puerto Rican history that has been purposely excluded from the country's official history books. Author Juan Antonio Corretjer was a participant in the ascendancy and heyday of the Partido Nacionalista (Nationalist Party), and in 1936, with the rest of the party's leadership, was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment and exile in federal penitentiaries in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Manhattan, New York City. "Why?" The reader might ask, is this work being translated almost fifty years after its publication? The reason is simpler than one might expect: It is because Puerto Rico remains a colony of the United States. Although modern technology is familiar to many islanders, and there is a façade of economic prosperity, Puerto Ricans have no political power to decide upon economic, trade, or political policies. Over the past few decades, more and more reasons have surfaced to suggest an English edition of the book is critical to have published. Reasons include the current push from certain politicians in Washington towards annexation of Puerto Rico to the United States is strong and undeniable. In addition to this, there's been a shift in favor of statehood from progressive organizations and individuals in that country who once supported independence for the Island. With imminent threats painting a destructive future on Puerto Rico's behalf, it is important as many people learn about the "why" of this subject as possible. Statehood will mean the demise of a Latin American country that has its own cultural expressions, unique characteristics, and needs that are not consonant with the needs of the United States. The treatment of Puerto Ricans--as of native Hawaiians since the granting of statehood to that archipelago, and the Mexicans who were living in the western territories taken in the nineteenth century--will continue to be that of second-class citizens dispossessed of their national identity and sovereignty. For the United States, Puerto Rico is primarily a military bastion from which to threaten the integrity of the rest of Latin America, and a source of cannon fodder in times of war. The footnotes--not in the original text--are brief clarifications for readers who know nothing about the history of Puerto Rico. Some wordings have been changed to actualize, and to call attention to the fact that the passage of time has seen no fundamental difference in the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. The names of the political parties were left in Spanish, to avoid confusion with similar names of parties in the United States. In addition, the reader must bear in mind that America is all of the Americas, and not exclusively the portion in North America occupied by the United States. Consuelo Corretjer Lee December 7, 1999 New York

Book Puerto Rico s Revolt for Independence

Download or read book Puerto Rico s Revolt for Independence written by OLGA. JIMENEZ DE WAGENHEIM and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a socioeconomic interpretation of Puerto Rico's first and most significant attempt to end its colonial relationship with Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and conditions within Puerto Rico that led to the 1868 rebellion known as "El Grito de Lares," Dr. Jiménez de Wagenheim compares the colonization of Puerto Rico with that of Spanish America and explores the reasons why the island's independence movement began decades after Spain's other colonies in the region had revolted. Through the extensive use of previously unresearched archive material, she examines the economic and social backgrounds of the leaders of the rebel movement, corrects many errors of earlier accounts of the revolt, and offers new interpretations of its impact on Spanish-Puerto Rican relations.

Book The Puerto Ricans  Their History  Culture  and Society

Download or read book The Puerto Ricans Their History Culture and Society written by Adalberto López and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles in this book cover Puerto Rican history from the Spanish colonization to the present day experience of Puerto Ricans in the United States. Political, social, economic, cultural, and historical issues are addresed by the following authors: Edna Acosta-Belen, Frank Bonilla, Juan Manuel Carrion, Diana Christopulos, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Adalberto Lopez, Morris Morley, Francisco Moscoso, Iris Morales, Pedro Pietri, Felipe Luciano, Angel G. Quintero Rivera, Aaron Gamaliel Ramos, Tom Seidl, Janet Shenk, and Adrian DeWind. Government reports on Puerto Ricans in Hawaii and on poverty among and discrimination against Puerto Ricans in the mainland United States are also presented. (APM)

Book Puerto Rico s Revolt for Independence

Download or read book Puerto Rico s Revolt for Independence written by Olga Jiménez Wgenheim and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interprets Puerto Rico's first and most significant attempt to end its colonial dependence on Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and conditions within Puerto Rico that led to the 1868 rebellion known as El Grito de Lares, the author compares the colonization of Puerto Rico with that of Spanish America and explores why the island's independence movement began decades after Spain's other colonies of the region had revolted. Through the extensive use of previously unresearched archival materials of the rebel movement, she corrects many errors found in earlier accounts of the revolt, and offers new interpretations of the movement's impact on Spanish-Puerto Rican relations.

Book Fantasy Island

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  • Author : Ed Morales
  • Publisher : Bold Type Books
  • Release : 2019-09-10
  • ISBN : 1568588984
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Fantasy Island written by Ed Morales and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests. Taking readers from San Juan to New York City and back to his family's home in the Luquillo Mountains, Morales shows us the machinations of financial and political interests in both the US and Puerto Rico, and the resistance efforts of Puerto Rican artists and activists. Through it all, he emphasizes that the only way to stop Puerto Rico from being bled is to let Puerto Ricans take control of their own destiny, going beyond the statehood-commonwealth-independence debate to complete decolonization.

Book History of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement  19th century

Download or read book History of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement 19th century written by Harold J. Lidin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Intellectual Roots of Independence

Download or read book The Intellectual Roots of Independence written by Iris M. Zavala and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley’s project of “benevolent assimilation,” they established a school system that centered on English language and American literature to advance the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, which was held up as justification for the U.S.’s civilizing mission and offered as a promise of moral uplift and political advancement. Meanwhile, on American soil, the field of American literature was just being developed and fundamentally, though invisibly, defined by this new, extraterritorial expansion. Drawing on a wealth of material, including historical records, governmental documents from the War Department and the Bureau of Insular Affairs, curriculum guides, memoirs of American teachers in the Philippines, and 19th century literature, Meg Wesling not only links empire with education, but also demonstrates that the rearticulation of American literary studies through the imperial occupation in the Philippines served to actually define and strengthen the field. Empire’s Proxy boldly argues that the practical and ideological work of colonial dominance figured into the emergence of the field of American literature, and that the consolidation of a canon of American literature was intertwined with the administrative and intellectual tasks of colonial management.

Book War Against All Puerto Ricans

Download or read book War Against All Puerto Ricans written by Nelson Denis and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens. Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the controversial life of Pedro Albizu Campos, who served as the president of the Nationalist Party. A lawyer, chemical engineer, and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School, Albizu Campos was imprisoned for twenty-five years and died under mysterious circumstances. By tracing his life and death, Denis shows how the journey of Albizu Campos is part of a larger story of Puerto Rico and US colonialism. Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico’s history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. Denis provides an unflinching account of the gunfights, prison riots, political intrigue, FBI and CIA covert activity, and mass hysteria that accompanied this tumultuous period in Puerto Rican history.

Book Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans

Download or read book Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans written by Adalberto López and published by Halsted Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Caribbean Revolutions

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  • Author : Rachel A. May
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-21
  • ISBN : 1108424759
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Caribbean Revolutions written by Rachel A. May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history and comparative analysis of the most important Caribbean armed revolutionary movements during the Cold War era.

Book Patria

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  • Author : Edgardo Meléndez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-06-30
  • ISBN : 9781945662201
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Patria written by Edgardo Meléndez and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York examines the activities and ideals of Puerto Rican revolutionary exiles in New York City at the end of the nineteenth century. The study centers on the writings, news reports, and announcements by and about Puerto Ricans in Patria, the official newspaper of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. Both were founded and led by the Cuban patriot José Martí. The book looks at the political, organizational, and ideological ties between Cuban and Puerto Rican revolutionaries in exile, as well as the events surrounding the war of 1898. It argues that the major underpinnings of twentieth-century Puerto Rico¿s nationalist thought were already present in the Patria writings of Puerto Ricans. The newspaper also offers a glimpse into the daily life and community of Puerto Rican exiles in late nineteenth-century New York City. All the writings in Patria about Puerto Rico are presented in their full English translation. Finally, the book presents a historical overview of how the Puerto Rican exile community living in the city developed.

Book Puerto Rico

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  • Author : Rafael Cancel Miranda
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Puerto Rico written by Rafael Cancel Miranda and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our people are becoming aware of their own strength, which is what the colonial powers fear, explains Puerto Rican independence leader Rafael Cancel Miranda. In two interviews, Cancel Miranda -- one of five Puerto Rican Nationalists imprisoned by Washington for more than 25 years until 1979 -- speaks out on the brutal reality of U.S. colonial domination, the campaign to free Puerto Rican political prisoners, the example of Cuba's socialist revolution, and the resurgence of the independence movement today.