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Puerto Rico and the Origins of U.S. Global Empire: The Disembodied Shade book cover

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Puerto Rico and the Origins of U.S. Global Empire The Disembodied Shade

By Charles R. Venator-Santiago Copyright 2015
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge
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Drawing on a postcolonial legal history of the United States’ territorial expansionism, this book provides an analysis of the foundations of its global empire. Charles R. Venator-Santiago argues that the United States has developed three traditions of territorial expansionism with corresponding constitutional interpretations, namely colonialist, imperialist, and global expansionist. This book... Read more

Chapter 1: A Conceptual Overview,  Chapter 2: Nineteenth Century Territorial Expansionism,  Chapter 3: Large Policy Expansionism, The Third View, and the Unincorporated Territory,  Chapter 4: Citizenship and the Inclusive Exclusion of Puerto Ricans,  Chapter 5: Rights, Subjectivity, and the US Global Empire,  Chapter 6: Unincorporated Camps: Guantánamo Bay and the War on Terror,  Chapter 7: The Extraterritorial Subjectivities of US Global Empire,  Chapter 8: Conclusion,  Bibliography

Biography

Professor Charles R. Venator-Santiago is Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in El Instituto: Institute for Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is also a board member of the Latino/a Critical Theory (LatCrit) organization and President of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA).

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