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"Subject people" and colonial discourses : economic transformation and social disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947 / Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in society and culture in Latin AmericaPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585044287
  • 9780585044286
  • 9780791415900
  • 0791415902
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: "Subject people" and colonial discourses.DDC classification:
  • 364.97295/09/04 20
LOC classification:
  • HV6872 .S26 1994eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Post-Coloniality, Corrective Studies, and the (Re)making of History -- pt. I. 1898-1921. 2. A Contest of Structures. 3. The Contradictory Mechanisms of Preservation and Transformation. 4. The Rise of the "Evil-Disposed" Classes, 1898-1909. 5. "Waging Battle Against Numerous Evils," 1910-1921 -- pt. II. 1922-1947. 6. "Creating a Discontented Working Class," 1922-1929. 7. "The Age of Criminal Saturation," 1930-1939. 8. "Rage Concentrated Twice Over," 1940-1947. 9. The Subjects in Question.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-295) and index.

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1. Post-Coloniality, Corrective Studies, and the (Re)making of History -- pt. I. 1898-1921. 2. A Contest of Structures. 3. The Contradictory Mechanisms of Preservation and Transformation. 4. The Rise of the "Evil-Disposed" Classes, 1898-1909. 5. "Waging Battle Against Numerous Evils," 1910-1921 -- pt. II. 1922-1947. 6. "Creating a Discontented Working Class," 1922-1929. 7. "The Age of Criminal Saturation," 1930-1939. 8. "Rage Concentrated Twice Over," 1940-1947. 9. The Subjects in Question.

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.

English.

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