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Our landless patria : marginal citizenship and race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880-1910 /

Our Landless Patria examines issues of race and citizenship in Puerto Rico, tracing how the process of land privatization accelerated a series of struggles for natural resources between the poorest sectors of society and the landed elite. The laws of privatization favored the landed elite and barred...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carrasquillo, Rosa E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping Caguas, mapping the country: the political and economic bases of citizenship
  • From crown to citizen: local politics and centralization
  • In the face of inequality: land privatization and racial hierarchies
  • Stepping toward liberation: defense of mobility rights and race
  • Marginal but not equal: gender and citizenship.