Carrasquillo, Rosa E.

Our landless patria marginal citizenship and race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880-1910 Rosa E. Carrasquillo. - Lincoln University of Nebraska Press c2006. - xxiv, 202 p. ill., maps 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-196) and index.

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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Social stratification--Puerto Rico--Caguas.
Citizenship--Puerto Rico--Caguas.
Peasants--Social conditions.--Puerto Rico--Caguas
Privatization--Puerto Rico--Caguas.
Land tenure--Government policy--Puerto Rico--Caguas.


Caguas (P.R.)--Race relations.

HN240.Z9 / S63 2006

306.2/097295