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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.

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• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One The Political Economy of Puerto Rico
• 1 The Political Economy of Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century and Puerto Rican Postnational Strategies
• 2 World Cities in the Caribbean: Miami and San Juan
• Part Two Puerto Rican Migration and the Caribbean Diaspora in the United States
• 3 Migration and Geopolitics in the Greater Antilles: From the Cold War to the Post-Cold War
• 4 Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Comparative Approach
• 5 "Coloniality of Power" and Racial Dynamics: Notes on a Reinterpretation of Latino Caribbeans in New York City (with Chloe S. Georas)
• Part Three Caribbean Colonial Migrants in Western Europe and the United States
• 6 Colonial Caribbean Migrations to France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and the United States
• 7 "Cultural Racism" and Colonial Caribbean Migrants in Core Zones of the Capitalist World-Economy
• Appendix
• References
• Index

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As a privileged white Puerto Rican born on the island who then experienced being a racialized colonial subject after migrating to the US mainland, Grosfoguel (Univ. of California, Berkeley) understands first hand what he identifies as the Puerto Rican dilemma: as a nonsettler, nonincorporated territory of the US empire, Puerto Rico has historically managed to preserve much of its Spanish language and distinct non-Anglo culture. As a neocolony of the US, however, Puerto Rico continues to serve the US in a strategic military capacity, exploited for its natural and labor resources. Like much of Latin America, Puerto Rico illustrates "coloniality," or "independence without decolonization." Grosfoguel offers an alternative reading of Puerto Rico's place on the periphery of the modern world system from multiple, subaltern locations by tracing Puerto Rican migration and transmigration and mapping its diaspora. He is especially committed to explicating the process of racialization and the function of race in the incorporation of Puerto Ricans of all classes as colonial/racial subjects in the US empire and US-controlled global labor market. Not for the faint-hearted and theoretically uninitiated, this book challenges postcolonialism within the context of postcolonial theory and is articulated in the same thick language and dense discourse. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. E. Hu-DeHart Brown University

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Ramón Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century (2002), Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York (2001), and Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism (1997). He is a research associate of the Maison des Science de l'Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center in New York.