Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective"This book is a substantial contribution to the historical and interpretive sociology of the modern world. It is written as both a critique of the modernist paradigm, and as a reinterpretation of the contribution of Puerto Rico to the making of the modern world from a 'decentered' perspective."—Philip McMichael, author of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective "Grosfoguel's grounding in the complexities of the Puerto Rican past and present provides us with original and generative scholarship that requires a new self-reflexive approach to knowledge and nationalism, to colonialism and capitalism, to citizenship and subjectivity. Within ethnic studies, Grosfoguel's approach is a crucial contribution to the progress of the field beyond ethnic particularism and toward the identification and understanding of the broader social forces that create social differences and give them their determinate social meanings."—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger "Grosfoguel's book should become the definitive work on Puerto Rican migratory circuits."—Jose David Saldívar, author of Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies "Grosfoguel discovers the relationship between the coloniality of power, the migratory movement to the Caribbean, the formation of new global cities like Miami, and tendencies toward a new geo-strategic configuration of a global scale."—Anibal Quijano, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University "In this exciting look at Puerto Rico from a world-systems perspective, Grosfoguel examines colonialism with a fresh theoretical eye."—Immanuel Wallerstein, author of The Modern World-System |
Contents
Geopolitics of Knowledge | 1 |
Miami and San Juan | 78 |
PART TWO Puerto Rican Migration and | 101 |
PART THREE Caribbean Colonial Migrants | 175 |
Cultural Racism and Colonial Caribbean Migrants | 192 |
Appendix | 213 |
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African African-Americans American Antilleans approach capitalist world-economy capitalist world-system Caribbean colonial Caribbean migrants cheap labor citizenship cold war colo colonial/racial subjects coloniality of power context core countries Cuba Cuban refugees cultural decolonization deindustrialization division of labor dominant Dominican Republic Dutch economic elites ethnic group Euro-American European federal French geopolitical geopolitical strategies global city global coloniality Grasmuck Haiti Haitian hegemonic historical imagined community immigrants industries island Jamaica labor force labor market Latin America logic manufacturing metropole metropolitan Miami Mignolo military modern colonies modes of incorporation nation-state nationalist neocolonial neoliberal Netherlands nial percent peripheral policies political population Portes programs Puerto Ricans Quijano racial racial/ethnic hierarchy racism racist discourses region relations Rico Rico’s San Juan sectors semiperipheral showcase social status Stepick structural struggles subaltern Surinamese symbolic capital tion transformed transmigrants transnational United urban Wallerstein Walter Mignolo West Indians workers world cities York City