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Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement

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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…

Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine, Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt, "Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine," 1934, Children and Youth in History

Whose Legacy?: Voicing Women’s Rights from the 1870s to the 1930s

In 1990 I interviewed Puerto Rican women--feminist critics, sociologists, and writers--for a project on Caribbean women's discourse.

The Dark History of Forced Sterilization of Latina Women

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Between the 1930s and the 1970s, approximately one-third of the female population of Puerto Rico was sterilized, making it highest rate of sterilization in the world.

Colonial Citizens of a Modern Empire: War, Illiteracy, and Physical Education in Puerto Rico, 1917-1930

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The year 1917 marked a critical moment in the relationship between the United States and its Puerto Rican colony.

From Sugar Plantations to Military Bases: The U.S. Navy‘s Expropriations in Vieques, Puerto Rico, 1940–45

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During World War II the U.S. Federal Government took over approximately 26,000 acres out of a total of 33,000 in the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, to build military installations.

Puerto Rican Needle Workers and Colonial Migrations: Deindustrialization as Pathways Lost

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The 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

Hacienda Mercedita

Hacienda Mercedita was a 300-acre (120 ha) sugarcane plantation in Ponce, Puerto Rico, founded in 1861, by Juan Serrallés Colón.

BRIEF HISTORY OF ISLA DE VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO

Studies show that Vieques was first inhabited by Native Americans who came from South America about 1500 years before Christopher Columbus set foot in Puerto Rico in 1493. 

Central Sugar Mills

The central sugar mill concept began in Puerto Rico with the establishment of Central San Vicente in 1873.