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In Puerto Rico, Women Won the Vote in a Bittersweet Game of Colonial Politics
Colonialism, History, WomenPuertorriqueñas’ fight for suffrage shaped by class, colonialism and racism—but even today, island residents cannot vote for president
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Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement
Labor movement, Sterilization, Women
MILAGROS DENIS AND RACHEL POOLEY
In December 1898, at the close of the Spanish-American War, Spain surrendered control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States. Though Cuba achieved nominal independence in 1902, in 1917 Puerto…
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Whose Legacy?: Voicing Women’s Rights from the 1870s to the 1930s
WomenIn 1990 I interviewed Puerto Rican women--feminist critics, sociologists, and writers--for a project on Caribbean women's discourse.
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Colonial Citizens of a Modern Empire: War, Illiteracy, and Physical Education in Puerto Rico, 1917-1930
Colonialism, MilitaryThe year 1917 marked a critical moment in the relationship between the United States and its Puerto Rican colony.
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Puerto Rican Needle Workers and Colonial Migrations: Deindustrialization as Pathways Lost
Colonialism, WomenThe dominant narrative of U.S. deindustrialization opens with the Northeast as the definitive starting point for industry followed by a direct linear relocation to the South and then the Global South. I