Puerto Rico : freedom and power in the Caribbean /
Gordon K. Lewis.
- New York : [Monthly Review Press], 1963.
- xii, 626 pages ; 24 cm
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Includes index. Title: Freedom and power in the Caribbean.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 575-613).
The nature of the problem -- The Caribbean background ; The Spanish legacy ; The rise of the American Mediterranean ; The imperialism of neglect: 1898-1932 ; The politics of survival: 1898-1932 ; The New Deal experiment ; 1940 and after: the populares -- Operation Bootstrap: the advent of industrialization ; The problem of economic dependency ; The role of labor ; Class and community ; Family, religion, and color ; The debate of "Americanization" ; The machinery of government: executive, administrative, and judicial ; The machinery of government: the legislature ; Parties and politics ; The problem of social status ; The growth of education ; The character of public opinion -- pt III. The Future: Puerto Rico and the Caribbean ; Puerto Rico and the Americas ; Puerto Rico and the world society. pt. I. The Past: pt. II. The Present:
Puerto Rico has been held up by official United States sources as a "showcase of democracy" and a model of American responsibilities in the Western Hemisphere. This book separates face and myth and portrays in scholarly detail the realities of modern Puerto Rico--its combination of real economic progress and socio-political retardation, its cultural distress and disorganization arising out of American penetration, its continuing neocolonial character as an American tropical dependency, the humiliating status of Puerto Ricans as second-class American citizens, the need for independence and socialism as the twin answers to the Puerto Rican tragedy.--From book jacket.
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