Winner, A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book, 2007
The colonial Spanish-American city, like its counterpart across the Atlantic, was an outgrowth of commercial enterprise. A center of entrepreneurial activity and wealth, it drew people seeking a better life, with more educational, occupational, commercial, bureaucratic, and marital possibilities than were available in the rural regions of the Spanish colonies. Indeed, the Spanish-American city represented hope and opportunity, although not for everyone.
In this authoritative work, Jay Kinsbruner draws on many...
Winner, A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book, 2007
The colonial Spanish-American city, like its counterpart across the Atlantic...
Countering the popular misconception that racial discrimination has largely not existed in Puerto Rico, Jay Kinsbruner's "Not of Pure Blood" shows that racial prejudice has long had an insidious effect on Puerto Rican society. Kinsbruner's study focuses on the free people of color--those of African descent who were considered nonwhite but were legally free during slavery--in order to explore the nature of racial prejudice in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico. In considering the consequences of these nineteenth-century attitudes on twentieth-century Puerto Rico, Kinsbruner suggests that racial...
Countering the popular misconception that racial discrimination has largely not existed in Puerto Rico, Jay Kinsbruner's "Not of Pure Blood" shows tha...
In overturning Spain's control of the Americas, such great military leaders as Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin unleashed both civil wars and revolutions between 1810 and 1824. Sixteen nations emerged from these violent and cataclysmic wars. The liberators set themselves up to govern the new states they created but quickly failed as rulers. They succumbed, in part, to changes resulting from independence itself-a new political order. Military campaigns directed against Spain split the colonists into royalists and patriots, resulting in a decade of civil wars. The newly formed nations...
In overturning Spain's control of the Americas, such great military leaders as Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin unleashed both civil wars and revo...
Countering the misconception that racial discrimination has not existed in Puerto Rico, this book shows that racial prejudice has had an insidious effect on Puerto Rican society. It is of interest to specialists in Caribbean studies, Puerto Rican history, and Latin America studies, and to scholars investigating racism and discrimination.
Countering the misconception that racial discrimination has not existed in Puerto Rico, this book shows that racial prejudice has had an insidious eff...
