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The precise legal nature of the relationship between the United States and the people of Puerto Rico was not explicitly determined in 1898 when the Treaty of Paris transferred sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain to the United States. Since then, many court cases, beginning in 1901, have been instrumental in defining this delicate relationship.
While the legislation has clearly established the nonexistence of Puerto Rican nationhood and lack of independent Puerto Rican citizenship, the debate over Puerto Rico's status continues to this day.
Malavet offers a critique of Puerto Rico's current status as well as of its treatment by the U.S. legal and political systems. Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States, and Puerto Ricans living on this geographically separate island are subject to the United States's legal and political authority. They are the largest group of U.S. citizens currently living under territorial status. Malavet argues that the Puerto Rican cultural nation experiences U.S. imperialism, which compromises both the island's sovereignty and Puerto Ricans' citizenship rights. He analyzes the three alternatives to Puerto Rico's continued territorial status, examining the challenges manifest in each possibility, as well as illuminating what he believes to be the best course of action.

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• Gracias (Thanks)(p. xi)
• Introduction: Why I Am Here(p. 1)
• 1 Race, Culture, Colonialism, Citizenships, and Latina/o Critical Race Theory(p. 15)
• 2 The Legal Relationship between Puerto Rico and the Estados Unidos de Norteamerica (United States of America)(p. 28)
• 3 Puerto Rican Political Culture(p. 49)
• 4 Puerto Rican Cultural Nationhood(p. 100)
• 5 Theorizing a New Reality of Citizenship and Nation(p. 117)
• 6 A Framework for Legal Reform(p. 132)
• 7 Conclusion(p. 147)
• Notes(p. 163)
• Index(p. 223)
• About the Author(p. 242)

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CHOICE Review

Malavet presents a lawyerly examination of the legal and political status of the island of Puerto Rico, viewed as a colony of the US. The subtitle--the political and cultural conflict between the United States and Puerto Rico--is less evident in the text than in the title. Much (most) of the book concerns the development of the legal and constitutional relationship between the island and the mainland. As such, it provides a new and needed approach to understanding the development and current status of Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, the legalistic style provides a relatively arid approach to the long history of this relationship in both a cultural and political sense. The book has no bibliography and extensive footnotes do not contain references to older (but more interesting) works on the topic. Other sources on the subject include Francisco Rivera-Batiz's Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s (CH, Jul'97) and Kelvin Santiago-Valles's "Subject People" and Colonial Discourses (CH, Sep'94). Finally, no book on Puerto Rico should be written without reference to Gordon K. Lewis's Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean (1963). ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Researchers, faculty, and professionals. E. A. Duff emeritus, Randolph-Macon Woman's College

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Pedro A. Malavet is Professor at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law