| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Our Landless Patria examines issues of race and citizenship in Puerto Rico, tracing how the process of land privatization accelerated a series of struggles for natural resources between the poorest sectors of society and the landed elite. The laws of privatization favored the landed elite and barred former slaves and their descendants from obtaining a formal title to a piece of land. In response, people of color developed an alternative citizenship that validated their livelihood, putting in motion a series of civil claims that protected people's mobility rights and their access to land. However, the rural poor's claims for a more egalitarian society, or what Rosa E. Carrasquillo calls "marginal citizenship," could not successfully transform the political exclusion of the racially mixed population because of its heavy borrowing from the Spanish legal system. In particular, marginal citizenship adopted patriarchy as a model to regulate social relations at home, failing to address gender inequalities and perpetuating class differences. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social stratification -- Puerto Rico -- Caguas.
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Social stratification. |
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Puerto Rico -- Caguas. |
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Land tenure -- Government policy -- Puerto Rico -- Caguas.
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Land tenure -- Government policy. |
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Land tenure. |
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Privatization -- Puerto Rico -- Caguas.
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Privatization. |
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Peasants -- Puerto Rico -- Caguas -- Social conditions.
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Peasants. |
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Social conditions. |
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Citizenship -- Puerto Rico -- Caguas.
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Citizenship. |
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Caguas (P.R.) -- Race relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carrasquillo, Rosa E. Our landless patria. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006 0803215371 (DLC) 2005021555 (OCoLC)61204347 |
| ISBN |
0803251785 (electronic book) |
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9780803251786 (electronic book) |
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1280466154 |
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9781280466151 |
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