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La Modernización de la Suerte
MARIO RAMOS MÉNDEZ es autor de "Posesión del ayer: La nacionalidad cultural en la estadidad"; "Sin los dados cargados: Breve genealogía de la Ley de Juegos de Azar" y de "Fuera del laberinto: La estadidad como igualdad y soberanía".
The Sovereign Colony
"An examination of the development of the Olympic movement in Puerto Rico in the context of national and political identity"--
Dream Nation
Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book Dream Nation, María Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality. Bringing together texts from Puerto Rican literature, history, and popular culture, Dream Nation shows how imaginings of national independence have served many competing purposes. They have given authority to the island’s literary and artistic establishment but have also been a badge of countercultural...
Posesión del ayer
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Puerto Rico
"How did Puerto Rico end up in its current situation? A Spanish-speaking territory controlled by the United States and populated by the descendants of conquistadors, enslaved Africans, and indigenous inhabitants, this island (or rather archipelago) has a unique history. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo begins the book with an overview of the pre-Columbian societies and cultures that first inhabited Borikén, the indigenous name of the Puerto Rican archipelago. Though the arrival of the Spanish had a profound impact on Puerto Rico's history, he takes care to tell the story "from the shore" and not "from the boat." The Taínos were not merely passive victims; though they were enslaved and murdered dur...
Fuera del laberinto
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Visions of Sovereignty
In the contemporary world, there are many democratic states whose minority nations have pushed for constitutional reform, greater autonomy, and asymmetric federalism. Substate national movements within countries such as Spain, Canada, Belgium, and the United Kingdom are heterogeneous: some nationalists advocate independence, others seek an autonomous special status within the state, and yet others often seek greater self-government as a constituent unit of a federation or federal system. What motivates substate nationalists to prioritize one constitutional vision over another is one of the great puzzles of ethnonational constitutional politics. In Visions of Sovereignty, Jaime Lluch examines...
The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico
In 1991, the Puerto Rican government abolished bilingualism, claiming that “Spanish only” was necessary to protect the culture from North American influences. A few years later bilingualism was restored and English was promoted in public schools. This revised edition of The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico is updated with an emphasis on the dual arenas where the language controversy played out—Puerto Rico and the United States Congress—and includes new data on the connections between language and conflicting notions of American identity. This book shows that officials in both San Juan and Washington, along with English-first groups, used these language laws as weapons in the battle over U.S.-Puerto Rican relations and the volatile debate over statehood.
El soberano es el ciudadano
En este libro Faisel Iglesias trasciende el concepto de soberan�a popular de la Revoluci�n Francesa, de la era moderna, y consagra uno nuevo para la posmodernidad: la soberan�a del ciudadano. / Mario Ramos M�ndezEste libro, m�s que ensayar, hace un exhaustivo y aportador estudio sobre la implementaci�n del Estado y el Derecho, sobre la �evoluci�n? hist�rica no solo de Cuba sino tambi�n de Puerto Rico, y sobre la actitud como de gerente mediador de los Estados Unidos. / Luis P�rez de CastroEl �mbito jur�dico, insuficientemente explorado por los pensadores de la democracia y/o el Estado de Derecho en el contexto latinoamericano, es abordado aqu� con lucidez y generosidad. / Armando A�elEn definitiva, un libro ineludible para todo ciudadano que ha aprendido a razonar sin temor a las consecuencias. / �ngel Santiesteban-Prats
Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas
"Sounding Latin America studies popular music making by immigrants from Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean in the United States. It focuses on the points of contact and divergence in music making that result from competing values informed by how modernity is experienced across the Americas: the relation of language to letters; cosmopolitanism; racial categories and adjacent traditions and notions of the past; citizenship and migrancy; globalization and belonging. First study of the intra-hemispheric, linked but divergent relations of "Latin" music to the US and Latin America Proposes a comparative method for understanding the relations of immigrants to minority groups in the US with music making as the center Book places aurality ("intersensory, affective, cognitive, discursive, material, perceptual, and rhetorical network") as central operation in the constitution of "music.""--
