| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 275 pages). |
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The law and public policy |
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Law and public policy.
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| Contents |
pt. I. Essential History -- Ch. 1. The U.S. Expansionist Drive -- Ch. 2. Puerto Rico Before 1898 -- Ch. 3. Puerto Rico Under the American Regime -- pt. II. The Judicial Construction of Colonialism -- Ch. 4. The Legal Doctrine of the Insular Cases -- Ch. 5. The Legal Theory and Ideology of the Insular Cases -- Ch. 6. The Constitutive Effects of the Insular Cases -- pt. III. The Production of Hegemony in Puerto Rican Society -- Ch. 7. Hegemony Through Citizenship -- Ch. 8. Hegemony Through Legal Consciousness: Rights, Partial Democracy, and the Rule of Law. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index. |
| Summary |
"The Legal Construction of Identity: The Judicial and Social Legacy of American Colonialism in Puerto Rico" investigates how the relationship between the US and Puerto Rico has been created and recreated over the past 100 yrs. More specifically, the author engages in the exploration of how law has contributed to the construction of a particular social reality, a reality embodied by the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico. The book discusses the legal constructs and governing norms involved in the struggle for identity, specifically a Puerto Rican identity, one which claims rights to US citizenship and participation while also asserting a separate cultural identity. The law as a crucial arbiter of self-determination and self-perception is also analyzed in relation to Puerto Ricans striving to form a distinct national identity. The audience for this book includes social scientists and legal scholars but also to anyone interested in the symbiotic relationship between law and society. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Form |
Also issued in print. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Law -- United States -- Territories and possessions.
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Law -- Puerto Rico -- History.
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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Puerto Rico -- Colonial influence.
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Puerto Rico -- Social conditions.
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Jurisprudence -- United States.
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Jurisprudence -- Puerto Rico -- history.
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| Added Title |
PsycBooks.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1557986703 (DLC) 00050272 |
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