cover of episode Jorge Duany, “Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Jorge Duany, “Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford UP, 2017)

2017/6/13
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Not quite a colony, not quite independent, fiercely nationalist, what is Puerto Rico’s status, exactly? Jorge Duany)‘s Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know) (Oxford University Press), 2017) offers clear answers to complicated questions about Puerto Rico’s politics and history, as well as accounting for many phenomena that characterize the island today; migration to and from the island, the state of its economy, the role of language in shaping Puerto Rican identities. Whether you know nothing or a great deal, this book is sure to surprise and inform you.

 

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