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Subject People and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social Disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947 (Suny Series in Society and Culture) - Softcover

Santiago-Valles, Kelvin A.

 
9780791415900: Subject People and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social Disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947 (Suny Series in Society and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791415902 ISBN 13: 9780791415900
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Santiago-Valles explores how the new regime's socio-economic, political, and signification systems socially constructed the laboring poor of this Caribbean island as "wayward" subjects. Critically drawing on recent theorizations of post-structuralism, feminism, critical criminology, subaltern studies, and post-coloniality he examines the mechanisms through which colonized subjects become recognized, contained, and represented as subordinate.

He analyzes the structures of social control in Latin America by focusing on the evolving definitions of deviance, social unrest, and economic development. At issue are the cultural practices that necessarily accompanied and aided U. S. colonialist enterprises in Puerto Rico during a shift in the world capitalist market and in geopolitical hegemony with the Caribbean.

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About the Author

Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles is Associate Professor in the Sociology Department, State University of New York at Binghamton.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791415902
ISBN 13 
9780791415900
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
314