Title "Subject people" and colonial discourses : economic transformation and social disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947 / Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) Series SUNY series in society and culture in Latin America SUNY series in society and culture in Latin America. Contents 1. Post-Coloniality, Corrective Studies, and the (Re)making of History -- pt. I. 1898-1921. 2. A Contest of Structures. 3. The Contradictory Mechanisms of Preservation and Transformation. 4. The Rise of the "Evil-Disposed" Classes, 1898-1909. 5. "Waging Battle Against Numerous Evils," 1910-1921 -- pt. II. 1922-1947. 6. "Creating a Discontented Working Class," 1922-1929. 7. "The Age of Criminal Saturation," 1930-1939. 8. "Rage Concentrated Twice Over," 1940-1947. 9. The Subjects in Question Summary This book rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Santiago-Valles explores how the new regime's socio-economic, political, and signification systems socially constructed the laboring poor of this Caribbean island as "wayward" subjects. Critically drawing on recent theorizations of post-structuralism, feminism, critical criminology, subaltern studies, and post-coloniality he examines the mechanisms through which colonized subjects become recognized, contained, and represented as subordinate. He analyzes the structures of social control in Latin America by focusing on the evolving definitions of deviance, social unrest, and economic development. At issue are the cultural practices that necessarily accompanied and aided U.S. colonialist enterprises in Puerto Rico during a shift in the world capitalist market and in geopolitical hegemony with the Caribbean Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-295) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Crime -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century Social conflict -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. Crime Economic history Social conflict Social conditions Sociale conflicten. Koloniale periode. Economische ontwikkeling. SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108960 Puerto Rico -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108944 Subject Puerto Rico Puerto Rico. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0585044287 9780585044286 9780791415900 0791415902

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