Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective

Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ram n Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes. He offers a comprehensive and well-reasoned framework for understanding the position of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, the position of Puerto Ricans in the United States, and the position of colonial migrants compared to noncolonial migrants in the world system.

Author: Ramon Grosfoguel
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/30/2003
Pages: 283
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780520230217
ISBN10: 0520230213
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | General
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration

About the Author
Ramón Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century (2002), Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York (2001), and Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism (1997). He is a research associate of the Maison des Science de l'Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center in New York.