Rethinking Puerto Rican Precolonial History
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Author | : Reniel Rodríguez Ramos |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2010-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817356096 |
Focuses on the successive indigenous cultures of Puerto Rico prior to 1493 The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Taíno were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the United States. The truth is more complex, but in many ways Puerto Rico remains one of the last colonies in the world. This volume focuses on the successive indigenous cultures of Puerto Rico prior to 1493. Traditional studies of the cultures of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean have centered on ceramic studies, based on the archaeological model developed by Irving Rouse which has guided Caribbean archaeology for decades. Rodríguez Ramos departs from this methodology by implementing lithics as the primary unit for tracing the origins and developments of the indigenous peoples of Puerto Rico. Analyzing the technological styles involved in the production of stone artifacts in the island through time, as well as the evaluation of an inventory of more than 500 radiocarbon dates recovered since Rouse's model emerged, the author presents a truly innovative study revealing alternative perspectives on Puerto Rico's pre-Columbian culture-historical sequence. By applying a multiscalar design, he not only not only provides an analysis of the plural ways in which the precolonial peoples of the island interacted and negotiated their identities but also shows how the cultural landscapes of Puerto Rico, the Antilles, and the Greater Caribbean shaped and were shaped by mutually constituting processes through time.
Author | : Lorrin R Thomas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2017-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351678728 |
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans’ political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States to create communities for themselves and their compatriots in times and places where dark-skinned or ‘foreign’ Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose to prominence in the late 1960s was built on a foundation of civil rights activism beginning much earlier in the century. The text contextualizes Puerto Rican activism within the broader context of twentieth-century civil rights movements, while emphasizing the characteristics and goals unique to the Puerto Rican experience. Lucid and insightful, Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights provides a much-needed introduction to a lesser-known but critically important social and political movement.
Author | : Reneil Rodriguez Ramos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
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Author | : Ramon Grosfoguel |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003-10-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520927544 |
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. Ramón 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 | : Reniel Rodríguez Ramos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Puerto Rico |
ISBN | : |
I conclude by proposing a reticulate model for Antillean archaeology in opposition to the phylogenetic framework that is still dominant in the area and the consideration of the Greater Caribbean as a geohistorical area of study.
Author | : Frances Negrón-Muntaner |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0816628483 |
Challenges the framing of Puerto Rican cultural politics as a dichotomy between nationalism and colonialism. Discussions of Puerto Rican cultural politics usually fall into one of two categories, nationalist or colonialist. Puerto Rican Jam moves beyond this narrow dichotomy, elaborating alternatives to dominant postcolonial theories, and includes essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented, such as gays and lesbians, youth, blacks, and women. Among the topics discussed are the limitations of nationalism as a transformative and democratizing political discourse, the contradictory impact of American colonialism, language politics, and the 1928 U.S. congressional hearings on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico.
Author | : Peter E. Siegel |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2005-09-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : William F. Keegan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2013-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195392302 |
This volume brings together examples of the best research to address the complexity of the Caribbean past.
Author | : Ludomir R Lozny |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 2011-04-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1441982256 |
Archaeology, as with all of the social sciences, has always been characterized by competing theoretical propositions based on diverse bodies of locally acquired data. In order to fulfill local, regional expectations, different goals have been assigned to the practitioners of Archaeology in different regions. These goals might be entrenched in local politics, or social expectations behind cultural heritage research. This comprehensive book explores regional archaeologies from a sociological perspective—to identify and explain regional differences in archaeological practice, as well as their existing similarities. This work covers not only the currently-dominant Anglo-American archaeological paradigm, but also Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, all of which have developed their own unique archaeological traditions. The contributions in this work cover these "alternative archaeologies," in the context of their own geographical, political, and socio-economic settings, as well as the context of the currently accepted mainstream approaches.
Author | : Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A detailed analysis of Puerto Rican society during the Spanish colonial period, highlighting the roles and responsibilities of women and workers. Rather than celebrating the victors, the author has composed the book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed and exploited.