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

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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.
Subjects:
Social stratification > Puerto Rico > Caguas.
Land tenure > Government policy > Puerto Rico > Caguas.
Privatization > Puerto Rico > Caguas.
Peasants > Puerto Rico > Caguas > Social conditions.
Citizenship > Puerto Rico > Caguas.
Stratification sociale > Porto Rico > Caguas.
Privatisation > Porto Rico > Caguas.
Paysannerie > Porto Rico > Caguas > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Citizenship.
Land tenure > Government policy.
Peasants > Social conditions.
Privatization.
Race relations.
Social stratification.
Caguas (P.R.) > Race relations.
Puerto Rico > Caguas.
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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.

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