Mérida M. Rúa
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199760268
- eISBN:
- 9780199950256
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199760268.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter investigates different dimensions of the “Chicago experiment,” the employment campaign intended to bring low-wage Puerto Rican maids to the city and also to serve as a form of birth ...
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This chapter investigates different dimensions of the “Chicago experiment,” the employment campaign intended to bring low-wage Puerto Rican maids to the city and also to serve as a form of birth control to reduce the population growth of the island. In doing so, it reveals not only the competing interests of the Puerto Rican government and the US government in regulating women’s bodies and the role of women in altering those schemes, but also the intellectual rivalries of scholars and institutions in producing gendered and racialized knowledge about migration and modernization.Less
This chapter investigates different dimensions of the “Chicago experiment,” the employment campaign intended to bring low-wage Puerto Rican maids to the city and also to serve as a form of birth control to reduce the population growth of the island. In doing so, it reveals not only the competing interests of the Puerto Rican government and the US government in regulating women’s bodies and the role of women in altering those schemes, but also the intellectual rivalries of scholars and institutions in producing gendered and racialized knowledge about migration and modernization.
Allison L. Sneider
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195321166
- eISBN:
- 9780199869725
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195321166.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, American History: 20th Century
During the 1910s suffragists followed closely the congressional debates over political independence for men in the Philippines and Puerto Rico and were intent on juxtaposing national legislation that ...
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During the 1910s suffragists followed closely the congressional debates over political independence for men in the Philippines and Puerto Rico and were intent on juxtaposing national legislation that expanded political autonomy for men in these U.S. island possessions against Congress's failure to pass a woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. constitution. By 1916 it seemed, ironically, that the U.S. colonial possessions might be the next site for woman suffrage victories. The revival of the push for the federal woman suffrage amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment (1920), took place in the context of U.S. efforts to resolve the political status of Puerto Rico and the Philippines.Less
During the 1910s suffragists followed closely the congressional debates over political independence for men in the Philippines and Puerto Rico and were intent on juxtaposing national legislation that expanded political autonomy for men in these U.S. island possessions against Congress's failure to pass a woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. constitution. By 1916 it seemed, ironically, that the U.S. colonial possessions might be the next site for woman suffrage victories. The revival of the push for the federal woman suffrage amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment (1920), took place in the context of U.S. efforts to resolve the political status of Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
Laurence Whitehead
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199243754
- eISBN:
- 9780191600333
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199243751.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
The history of the Caribbean provides a clear illustration of the ‘control’ method of imposed democratization and of the comparative effectiveness of three sub‐types of control—incorporation, ...
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The history of the Caribbean provides a clear illustration of the ‘control’ method of imposed democratization and of the comparative effectiveness of three sub‐types of control—incorporation, invasion, and intimidation. It also raises challenging questions regarding the effectiveness of US democratization pressure on the region, with only Puerto Rico (incorporation) existing as a fully consolidated democracy. Other forms of democratic imposition have occurred in Panama (invasion) and Nicaragua (intimidation), using very different methods and producing very different results.Less
The history of the Caribbean provides a clear illustration of the ‘control’ method of imposed democratization and of the comparative effectiveness of three sub‐types of control—incorporation, invasion, and intimidation. It also raises challenging questions regarding the effectiveness of US democratization pressure on the region, with only Puerto Rico (incorporation) existing as a fully consolidated democracy. Other forms of democratic imposition have occurred in Panama (invasion) and Nicaragua (intimidation), using very different methods and producing very different results.
José L. Bolívar Fresneda
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461640
- eISBN:
- 9781626745674
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461640.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
José L. Bolívar Fresneda, a historian and engineer, assesses the impact of massive U.S. military investment, the use of the New Deal agencies for war purposes, and the fluke of the rum-revenue ...
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José L. Bolívar Fresneda, a historian and engineer, assesses the impact of massive U.S. military investment, the use of the New Deal agencies for war purposes, and the fluke of the rum-revenue bonanza. The Second World War brought about major changes in the Puerto Rican economy, hitherto mainly dependent on sugar exports and federal welfare expenditures. Three income streams provided Puerto Rico, an island with a population of roughly 1.9 million in 1940, with almost $1.2 billion dollars between 1939 and 1947, most of these from military related investments which would slowly erode following the end of the war.Less
José L. Bolívar Fresneda, a historian and engineer, assesses the impact of massive U.S. military investment, the use of the New Deal agencies for war purposes, and the fluke of the rum-revenue bonanza. The Second World War brought about major changes in the Puerto Rican economy, hitherto mainly dependent on sugar exports and federal welfare expenditures. Three income streams provided Puerto Rico, an island with a population of roughly 1.9 million in 1940, with almost $1.2 billion dollars between 1939 and 1947, most of these from military related investments which would slowly erode following the end of the war.
Cesar J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807831137
- eISBN:
- 9781469605609
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807895535_ayala
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, this book connects the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. It ...
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Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, this book connects the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. It explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the island residents, who experience an unusual and daily conundrum: they consider themselves a distinct people but are part of the American political system; they have U.S. citizenship but are not represented in the U.S. Congress; and they live on land that is neither independent nor part of the United States. Highlighting both well-known and forgotten figures from Puerto Rican history, the book discusses a wide range of topics, including literary and cultural debates and social and labor struggles that previous histories have neglected. Although the island's political economy remains dependent on the United States, the book also considers Puerto Rico's situation in light of world economies. It argues that the inability of Puerto Rico to shake its colonial legacy reveals the limits of free-market capitalism, a break from which would require a renewal of the long tradition of labor and social activism in Puerto Rico in connection with similar currents in the United States.Less
Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, this book connects the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. It explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the island residents, who experience an unusual and daily conundrum: they consider themselves a distinct people but are part of the American political system; they have U.S. citizenship but are not represented in the U.S. Congress; and they live on land that is neither independent nor part of the United States. Highlighting both well-known and forgotten figures from Puerto Rican history, the book discusses a wide range of topics, including literary and cultural debates and social and labor struggles that previous histories have neglected. Although the island's political economy remains dependent on the United States, the book also considers Puerto Rico's situation in light of world economies. It argues that the inability of Puerto Rico to shake its colonial legacy reveals the limits of free-market capitalism, a break from which would require a renewal of the long tradition of labor and social activism in Puerto Rico in connection with similar currents in the United States.
Joan D. Koss-Chioino
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195374643
- eISBN:
- 9780199865390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195374643.003.0009
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
The incorporation of religion and spirituality into mental health care has begun to acquire credibility after more than a century of rejection by mental health professionals providing conventional ...
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The incorporation of religion and spirituality into mental health care has begun to acquire credibility after more than a century of rejection by mental health professionals providing conventional interventions. This chapter describes an experiment carried out over thirty years ago aimed at integrating the public mental health system and Spiritism—a popular, religious healing system. It traces social changes in Puerto Rico in the last three decades as the context for changes in the mental health care system and the wider use, especially among professional sectors, of complementary/alternative and popular (i.e., “traditional”) medicine.Less
The incorporation of religion and spirituality into mental health care has begun to acquire credibility after more than a century of rejection by mental health professionals providing conventional interventions. This chapter describes an experiment carried out over thirty years ago aimed at integrating the public mental health system and Spiritism—a popular, religious healing system. It traces social changes in Puerto Rico in the last three decades as the context for changes in the mental health care system and the wider use, especially among professional sectors, of complementary/alternative and popular (i.e., “traditional”) medicine.
Winifred C. Connerton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719099700
- eISBN:
- 9781526104397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099700.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter explores intersections between nurse education and Americanisation in colonial Puerto Rico. It examines overlapping messages of Protestant missionaries and the U.S. colonial government, ...
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This chapter explores intersections between nurse education and Americanisation in colonial Puerto Rico. It examines overlapping messages of Protestant missionaries and the U.S. colonial government, highlighting U.S. nurses’ active participation in those messages. Nurses’ letters to nursing journals, annual mission reports and colonial government’s annual reports to the Department of War, reveal strong connections between evangelical mission goals and the colonial government’s goals. Trained nursing, gradually became incorporated into ideas of proper American health care. Prior to the American occupation, there was no tradition of trained nursing in these colonies; rather, care was provided by family members, hired nurses with no formal training, or Roman Catholic nursing sisters. The U.S. government promoted the nursing profession as contributing towards successful self-governance for the territories because trained native nurses would minister to their countrymen and demonstrate proper sanitation and health practices. Similarly Protestant missions expected that nurses trained in the mission hospitals would offer health care to their communities, while also evangelising the Protestant understanding of Christianity in the predominantly Roman Catholic colonies. Nurses’ correspondence demonstrates they could not (and did not want to) separate the ‘American’ from the nursing, no matter whether in secular colonial or mission settings.Less
This chapter explores intersections between nurse education and Americanisation in colonial Puerto Rico. It examines overlapping messages of Protestant missionaries and the U.S. colonial government, highlighting U.S. nurses’ active participation in those messages. Nurses’ letters to nursing journals, annual mission reports and colonial government’s annual reports to the Department of War, reveal strong connections between evangelical mission goals and the colonial government’s goals. Trained nursing, gradually became incorporated into ideas of proper American health care. Prior to the American occupation, there was no tradition of trained nursing in these colonies; rather, care was provided by family members, hired nurses with no formal training, or Roman Catholic nursing sisters. The U.S. government promoted the nursing profession as contributing towards successful self-governance for the territories because trained native nurses would minister to their countrymen and demonstrate proper sanitation and health practices. Similarly Protestant missions expected that nurses trained in the mission hospitals would offer health care to their communities, while also evangelising the Protestant understanding of Christianity in the predominantly Roman Catholic colonies. Nurses’ correspondence demonstrates they could not (and did not want to) separate the ‘American’ from the nursing, no matter whether in secular colonial or mission settings.
Robert C. McGreevey
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501716140
- eISBN:
- 9781501716164
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501716140.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter 1 examines how, in the early years of U.S. military rule, a number of colonial policies, including “coastwise” shipping and trade policy, upended the island economy and spurred Puerto Rican ...
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Chapter 1 examines how, in the early years of U.S. military rule, a number of colonial policies, including “coastwise” shipping and trade policy, upended the island economy and spurred Puerto Rican migration to the mainland. Yet even as Puerto Ricans were drawn within the mainland economy, racial nationalists defined them as foreign immigrants unfit for citizenship.Less
Chapter 1 examines how, in the early years of U.S. military rule, a number of colonial policies, including “coastwise” shipping and trade policy, upended the island economy and spurred Puerto Rican migration to the mainland. Yet even as Puerto Ricans were drawn within the mainland economy, racial nationalists defined them as foreign immigrants unfit for citizenship.
Lester Mcgrath-Andino
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195162271
- eISBN:
- 9780199850365
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162271.003.0017
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter explores the role played by the Ecumenical Coalition of Churches for Vieques (ECCV) in the formation and struggles of a broad-based civil disobedience campaign being carried out since ...
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This chapter explores the role played by the Ecumenical Coalition of Churches for Vieques (ECCV) in the formation and struggles of a broad-based civil disobedience campaign being carried out since 1999 by the people of Vieques and Puerto Rico against the U.S. Navy. As a result of the ECCV's leadership, the campaign was conducted in a peaceful manner and contributed to the defeat of the prostatehood administration in the November 7, 2000, local elections. This movement may significantly contribute to the creation of an ecumenical social agenda for the Puerto Rican people. Thus, a group of religious leaders of eight Christian denominations has had a direct influence on the political and social development of Puerto Rico, even though in this religious context social commitment and activism are not seen as the responsibility or the everyday task of the church.Less
This chapter explores the role played by the Ecumenical Coalition of Churches for Vieques (ECCV) in the formation and struggles of a broad-based civil disobedience campaign being carried out since 1999 by the people of Vieques and Puerto Rico against the U.S. Navy. As a result of the ECCV's leadership, the campaign was conducted in a peaceful manner and contributed to the defeat of the prostatehood administration in the November 7, 2000, local elections. This movement may significantly contribute to the creation of an ecumenical social agenda for the Puerto Rican people. Thus, a group of religious leaders of eight Christian denominations has had a direct influence on the political and social development of Puerto Rico, even though in this religious context social commitment and activism are not seen as the responsibility or the everyday task of the church.
William H. McDowell, Frederick N. Scatena, Robert B. Waide, Nicholas Brokaw, Gerardo R. Camilo, Alan P. Covich, Todd A. Crowl, Grizelle González, Effie A. Greathouse, Paul Klawinski, D. Jean Lodge, Ariel E. Lugo, Catherine M. Pringle, Barbara A. Richardson, Michael J. Richardson, Douglas A. Schaefer, Whendee L. Silver, Jill Thompson, Daniel J. Vogt, Kristiina A. Vogt, Michael R. Willig, Lawrence L. Woolbright, Xiaoming Zou, and Jess K. Zimmerman
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195334692
- eISBN:
- 9780190267742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195334692.003.0003
- Subject:
- Biology, Plant Sciences and Forestry
This chapter describes the geologic, geographic, and ecological context of the location of Luquillo Mountains, particularly the factors affecting the response mechanisms of terrestrial and aquatic ...
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This chapter describes the geologic, geographic, and ecological context of the location of Luquillo Mountains, particularly the factors affecting the response mechanisms of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to disturbance. It describes the existing conditions of the physical environment, chemical environment, and the biota of the Luquillo Mountains as they respond to disturbances. It then merges the decade-long research about the Mountains with the other tropical ecosystems around the globe.Less
This chapter describes the geologic, geographic, and ecological context of the location of Luquillo Mountains, particularly the factors affecting the response mechanisms of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to disturbance. It describes the existing conditions of the physical environment, chemical environment, and the biota of the Luquillo Mountains as they respond to disturbances. It then merges the decade-long research about the Mountains with the other tropical ecosystems around the globe.
Nancy H. Kwak
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226282350
- eISBN:
- 9780226282497
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226282497.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
As decolonization movements gained ground in the late 1950s and 60s, Americans attempted to exert indirect influence in politically sensitive areas of the world through the ostensibly neutral ...
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As decolonization movements gained ground in the late 1950s and 60s, Americans attempted to exert indirect influence in politically sensitive areas of the world through the ostensibly neutral category of “tropical housing.” Shelter in hot, humid climes could be best improved through aided self-help housing, according to US housing officials, and families only invested in home improvement if they were homeowners. Beginning in the American territory of Puerto Rico, American housing experts attempted to build a “tropical” model for the world. “Tropical” territories and nations like the Philippines and Singapore responded to American advisors and aid with housing programs that included elements of mass homeownership, but in ways that were wholly foreign to American experiences and intentions.Less
As decolonization movements gained ground in the late 1950s and 60s, Americans attempted to exert indirect influence in politically sensitive areas of the world through the ostensibly neutral category of “tropical housing.” Shelter in hot, humid climes could be best improved through aided self-help housing, according to US housing officials, and families only invested in home improvement if they were homeowners. Beginning in the American territory of Puerto Rico, American housing experts attempted to build a “tropical” model for the world. “Tropical” territories and nations like the Philippines and Singapore responded to American advisors and aid with housing programs that included elements of mass homeownership, but in ways that were wholly foreign to American experiences and intentions.
David A. Rezvani
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199688494
- eISBN:
- 9780191767739
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688494.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
Chapter 5 examines the origins, emergence, and constitutionally entrenched status of the US–Puerto Rico partially independent union. Puerto Rico is a paradigmatic example of a post-imperial state’s ...
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Chapter 5 examines the origins, emergence, and constitutionally entrenched status of the US–Puerto Rico partially independent union. Puerto Rico is a paradigmatic example of a post-imperial state’s use of partial independence to obtain the advantages of empire without its costs. The question of Puerto Rico’s status is highly controversial. Many believe that the territory is a mere colony of the US. Still others believe that the territory’s powers are formally entrenched. This chapter will argue that the territory is indeed a PIT (rather than a colony) and that its powers are entrenched by unwritten convention. The chapter discusses Puerto Rico’s early impoverished status as a US colony, the political rationale and cataclysmic events that helped inspire its emergence as a PIT, its conventionally entrenched status as compared to other views, and the counterequilibrium event of the Vieques controversy. It then concludes by anticipating and refuting some counterarguments to conventional entrenchment theory.Less
Chapter 5 examines the origins, emergence, and constitutionally entrenched status of the US–Puerto Rico partially independent union. Puerto Rico is a paradigmatic example of a post-imperial state’s use of partial independence to obtain the advantages of empire without its costs. The question of Puerto Rico’s status is highly controversial. Many believe that the territory is a mere colony of the US. Still others believe that the territory’s powers are formally entrenched. This chapter will argue that the territory is indeed a PIT (rather than a colony) and that its powers are entrenched by unwritten convention. The chapter discusses Puerto Rico’s early impoverished status as a US colony, the political rationale and cataclysmic events that helped inspire its emergence as a PIT, its conventionally entrenched status as compared to other views, and the counterequilibrium event of the Vieques controversy. It then concludes by anticipating and refuting some counterarguments to conventional entrenchment theory.
Jorge Rodríguez Beruff
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461640
- eISBN:
- 9781626745674
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461640.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Rodriguez Beruff analyzes the political dynamics of the prewar period. It traces the transition from the stormy Puerto Rican governorship of General Blanton Winship to that of the far more able ...
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Rodriguez Beruff analyzes the political dynamics of the prewar period. It traces the transition from the stormy Puerto Rican governorship of General Blanton Winship to that of the far more able Admiral William D. Leahy during the opening days of the war. Given the economic uncertainties of the island, powerful political and economic interests, particularly those linked to the sugar industry, demanded that strong handed governor be named to replace Gore. James Beverley, Gore´s predecessor, explicitly recommended a former military officer and mentioned retired General Blanton Winship. It was in this context of a perceived breakdown of order in Puerto Rico that Winship, a former Judge Advocate General of the Army, was named governor in late 1934. However, by 1939, he was substituted by Roosevelt´s closest naval advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy. This constituted not merely a change of functionaries, but was part of a broader redefinition of Washington´s approach to Puerto Rico which created conditions for major political changes in the island´s politics.Less
Rodriguez Beruff analyzes the political dynamics of the prewar period. It traces the transition from the stormy Puerto Rican governorship of General Blanton Winship to that of the far more able Admiral William D. Leahy during the opening days of the war. Given the economic uncertainties of the island, powerful political and economic interests, particularly those linked to the sugar industry, demanded that strong handed governor be named to replace Gore. James Beverley, Gore´s predecessor, explicitly recommended a former military officer and mentioned retired General Blanton Winship. It was in this context of a perceived breakdown of order in Puerto Rico that Winship, a former Judge Advocate General of the Army, was named governor in late 1934. However, by 1939, he was substituted by Roosevelt´s closest naval advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy. This constituted not merely a change of functionaries, but was part of a broader redefinition of Washington´s approach to Puerto Rico which created conditions for major political changes in the island´s politics.
Michael Janeway
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461640
- eISBN:
- 9781626745674
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461640.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Michael Janeway probes the relationship from 1941 forward between newly-elected Senate President Luis Muñoz Marín and Rexford Guy Tugwell, the last continental appointed Governor of Puerto Rico; and, ...
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Michael Janeway probes the relationship from 1941 forward between newly-elected Senate President Luis Muñoz Marín and Rexford Guy Tugwell, the last continental appointed Governor of Puerto Rico; and, between them and President Roosevelt and his powerful Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes. Janeway brings to bear in this essay his considerable research experience on US-Puerto Rico relations in the context of New Deal policies.Less
Michael Janeway probes the relationship from 1941 forward between newly-elected Senate President Luis Muñoz Marín and Rexford Guy Tugwell, the last continental appointed Governor of Puerto Rico; and, between them and President Roosevelt and his powerful Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes. Janeway brings to bear in this essay his considerable research experience on US-Puerto Rico relations in the context of New Deal policies.
Helena Hansen
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520298033
- eISBN:
- 9780520970168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520298033.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter considers the question of how Puerto Rico, a formerly Catholic island with U.S. funding to biomedicalize its treatment system, become an epicenter for Protestant addiction evangelism? It ...
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This chapter considers the question of how Puerto Rico, a formerly Catholic island with U.S. funding to biomedicalize its treatment system, become an epicenter for Protestant addiction evangelism? It fleshes out the connections between the moral economy of street ministries and the political economy of post-industrial Puerto Rico by reconstructing two parallel histories: one is a brief economic history of Puerto Rico's evolution from a Spanish colony to its current status as a “territory” of the United States, with partial eligibility for U.S. federal entitlements while serving initially as a labor pool and later as a tax shelter for U.S. industry. Another is the story of more recent debates surrounding the island's drug policy and addiction treatment under health reform, given that health reform has been a key element of the island's efforts to elevate its status in relation to the United States.Less
This chapter considers the question of how Puerto Rico, a formerly Catholic island with U.S. funding to biomedicalize its treatment system, become an epicenter for Protestant addiction evangelism? It fleshes out the connections between the moral economy of street ministries and the political economy of post-industrial Puerto Rico by reconstructing two parallel histories: one is a brief economic history of Puerto Rico's evolution from a Spanish colony to its current status as a “territory” of the United States, with partial eligibility for U.S. federal entitlements while serving initially as a labor pool and later as a tax shelter for U.S. industry. Another is the story of more recent debates surrounding the island's drug policy and addiction treatment under health reform, given that health reform has been a key element of the island's efforts to elevate its status in relation to the United States.
Jorge Duany
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834978
- eISBN:
- 9781469602790
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869376_duany
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This comprehensive comparative study explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin. Chronicling ...
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This comprehensive comparative study explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin. Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, it argues that each sending country's relationship to the United States shapes the transnational experience for each migrant group, from legal status and migratory patterns to work activities and the connections migrants retain with their home countries. Blending extensive ethnographic, archival, and survey research, the book proposes that contemporary migration challenges the traditional concept of the nation-state. Increasing numbers of immigrants and their descendants lead what it calls “bifocal” lives, bridging two or more states, markets, languages, and cultures throughout their lives. Even as nations attempt to draw their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants, the book argues, requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and residence, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries.Less
This comprehensive comparative study explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin. Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, it argues that each sending country's relationship to the United States shapes the transnational experience for each migrant group, from legal status and migratory patterns to work activities and the connections migrants retain with their home countries. Blending extensive ethnographic, archival, and survey research, the book proposes that contemporary migration challenges the traditional concept of the nation-state. Increasing numbers of immigrants and their descendants lead what it calls “bifocal” lives, bridging two or more states, markets, languages, and cultures throughout their lives. Even as nations attempt to draw their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants, the book argues, requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and residence, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries.
KELVIN SANTIAGO-VALLES
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032641
- eISBN:
- 9780813038230
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032641.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines the imagined republic of Puerto Rican populism in world-historical context and the poetics of plantation fantasies. It discusses the world-historical juncture at which ...
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This chapter examines the imagined republic of Puerto Rican populism in world-historical context and the poetics of plantation fantasies. It discusses the world-historical juncture at which Negro-themed poetry in Puerto Rico was embraced and mobilized by key elements of the island's intelligentsia. The chapter explains that this poetic genre was the literary equivalent of racial democracy writings and social science scholarship, as well as of the populist rhetoric conveyed by the rising stars of public oratory and of the political campaign circuit.Less
This chapter examines the imagined republic of Puerto Rican populism in world-historical context and the poetics of plantation fantasies. It discusses the world-historical juncture at which Negro-themed poetry in Puerto Rico was embraced and mobilized by key elements of the island's intelligentsia. The chapter explains that this poetic genre was the literary equivalent of racial democracy writings and social science scholarship, as well as of the populist rhetoric conveyed by the rising stars of public oratory and of the political campaign circuit.
Sheilla Rodríguez-Madera and Nelson Varas-Díaz
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199764303
- eISBN:
- 9780199950232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199764303.003.0013
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
One of the most taxing issues in the prevention of heterosexual transmission of HIV in Puerto Rico is culture itself. Researchers point to the need to change cultural norms related to gender and ...
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One of the most taxing issues in the prevention of heterosexual transmission of HIV in Puerto Rico is culture itself. Researchers point to the need to change cultural norms related to gender and sexuality to reduce HIV transmission: traditional gender roles that dictate the need for unprotected sex as a measure of relationship trust, understanding monogamy as an HIV prevention strategy, and the role of religion in discouraging condom use as a prevention effort. Although these issues are complex enough when addressing individuals, they become even more multifaceted when addressing couples that feel safe from HIV by having steady partners. However, when one partner in the dyad is HIV positive, implications for prevention are even more daunting. The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to a better understanding of HIV risk and protection in serodiscordant couples in Puerto Rico, by employing exploratory qualitative interviews with 20 such dyads.Less
One of the most taxing issues in the prevention of heterosexual transmission of HIV in Puerto Rico is culture itself. Researchers point to the need to change cultural norms related to gender and sexuality to reduce HIV transmission: traditional gender roles that dictate the need for unprotected sex as a measure of relationship trust, understanding monogamy as an HIV prevention strategy, and the role of religion in discouraging condom use as a prevention effort. Although these issues are complex enough when addressing individuals, they become even more multifaceted when addressing couples that feel safe from HIV by having steady partners. However, when one partner in the dyad is HIV positive, implications for prevention are even more daunting. The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to a better understanding of HIV risk and protection in serodiscordant couples in Puerto Rico, by employing exploratory qualitative interviews with 20 such dyads.
César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807831137
- eISBN:
- 9781469605609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807895535_ayala.15
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter focuses on the cultural policy and academic and literary debates that accompanied the Partido Popular Democrático's (PPD) economic and political initiatives in Puerto Rico during the ...
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This chapter focuses on the cultural policy and academic and literary debates that accompanied the Partido Popular Democrático's (PPD) economic and political initiatives in Puerto Rico during the 1950s. It describes the trends generated by such debates, including social science research projects, oppositional literary and artistic activity, a semiofficial cultural apparatus, and emergent forms within popular culture in a changing material context. The chapter also discusses public debates on some of the consequences of modernization and government policies on matters such as migration and birth control. In addition, it examines the opposition of some intellectuals belonging to generatión del treinta to the PPD project, the shift from “Americanization” to the institutionalization of Puerto Rican culture during the epoch of PPD hegemony, and the rise of a new type of Afro-Puerto Rican musical expression created by bandleader Rafael Cortijo and singer Ismael Rivera. Finally, the chapter considers author Rubén del Rosario's reflections on Puerto Rican culture in the 1950s and 1960s, with emphasis on his critique of purism in language.Less
This chapter focuses on the cultural policy and academic and literary debates that accompanied the Partido Popular Democrático's (PPD) economic and political initiatives in Puerto Rico during the 1950s. It describes the trends generated by such debates, including social science research projects, oppositional literary and artistic activity, a semiofficial cultural apparatus, and emergent forms within popular culture in a changing material context. The chapter also discusses public debates on some of the consequences of modernization and government policies on matters such as migration and birth control. In addition, it examines the opposition of some intellectuals belonging to generatión del treinta to the PPD project, the shift from “Americanization” to the institutionalization of Puerto Rican culture during the epoch of PPD hegemony, and the rise of a new type of Afro-Puerto Rican musical expression created by bandleader Rafael Cortijo and singer Ismael Rivera. Finally, the chapter considers author Rubén del Rosario's reflections on Puerto Rican culture in the 1950s and 1960s, with emphasis on his critique of purism in language.
David M. Stark
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780813060439
- eISBN:
- 9780813050669
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813060439.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Baptismal records can be used to locate and identify Africans brought to Puerto Rico in the years 1660 to 1815. Small numbers of Africans were baptized which confirms that few Africans arrived when ...
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Baptismal records can be used to locate and identify Africans brought to Puerto Rico in the years 1660 to 1815. Small numbers of Africans were baptized which confirms that few Africans arrived when the hato economy prevailed, and suggests that Puerto Rico’s enslaved population was largely dependent on natural increase. For the most part slaves brought to Puerto Rico did not come directly across the Atlantic to San Juan. Instead they were brought to a primary slave port in the non-Hispanic Caribbean, such as Saint Thomas, from where they were transported for sale in San Juan or other island communities. The island’s slave population was mainly African-descended, but not African-born; thus slaves’ cultural environment and lived experience was spent mostly or entirely on the island (or in the Americas). Moreover, the emergence of a Creole majority among slaves promoted social cohesiveness, as cultural and linguistic differences were less pronounced. This suggests that Afro-Puerto Rican communities were likely marked more by Creolization than African retention.Less
Baptismal records can be used to locate and identify Africans brought to Puerto Rico in the years 1660 to 1815. Small numbers of Africans were baptized which confirms that few Africans arrived when the hato economy prevailed, and suggests that Puerto Rico’s enslaved population was largely dependent on natural increase. For the most part slaves brought to Puerto Rico did not come directly across the Atlantic to San Juan. Instead they were brought to a primary slave port in the non-Hispanic Caribbean, such as Saint Thomas, from where they were transported for sale in San Juan or other island communities. The island’s slave population was mainly African-descended, but not African-born; thus slaves’ cultural environment and lived experience was spent mostly or entirely on the island (or in the Americas). Moreover, the emergence of a Creole majority among slaves promoted social cohesiveness, as cultural and linguistic differences were less pronounced. This suggests that Afro-Puerto Rican communities were likely marked more by Creolization than African retention.
