Making never-never land : race and law in the creation of Puerto Rico /

Making never-never land : race and law in the creation of Puerto Rico /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jiménez, Mónica A., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]
Description:	xi, 174 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Latinx histories Latinx histories.
Subject:	Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History. Constitutional law -- United States -- Territories and possessions. Constitutional law -- Political aspects -- Puerto Rico. Constitutional law -- Social aspects -- Puerto Rico. Colonial influence Constitutional law -- Political aspects Constitutional law -- Social aspects International relations Politics and government Race discrimination -- Law and legislation Puerto Rico -- Colonial influence. Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- 21st century. United States -- Relations -- Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico -- Relations -- United States. Puerto Rico United States History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13475995

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Race and law in the creation of Puerto Rico
ISBN:	9781469678443 1469678446 9781469678450 1469678454 9781469678467 9798890887306
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Puerto Rico has been an 'unincorporated territory' of the United States for over a century. For much of that time, the archipelago has been mostly invisible to US residents and neglected by the government. Recently, a series of crises, from outsized debt to climate fueled disasters, have led to massive protests and brought Puerto Rico greater visibility. Mónica A. Jiménez argues that to fully understand how and why Puerto Rico finds itself in this current moment of precarity, we must look to a larger history of US settler colonialism and racial exclusion in law. The federal policies and jurisprudence that created Puerto Rico exist within a larger pantheon of exclusionary, race-based laws and policies that have carved out 'states of exception' for racial undesirables: Native Americans, African Americans, and the inhabitants of the insular territories. This legal regime has allowed the federal government plenary or complete power over these groups. Jiménez brings these histories together to demonstrate that despite Puerto Rico's unique position as a twenty-first-century colony, its path to that place was not exceptional"--

Regenstein, Bookstacks

Loading map link

Holdings details from Regenstein, Bookstacks
Call Number:	F1971.J55 2024
	Available Loan period: standard loan Scan and Deliver Request for Pickup Need help? - Ask a Librarian