HIS* 107 - History Of Puerto Rico

Credit(s): 3
This course will examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the historical formation of a colonial society we now call “Puerto Rican,” by focusing both on the island and on the immigrant communities in the United States. The course will also examine how Puerto Ricans were constituted as colonial subjects under these vastly different imperial regimes. The course will explore historical events, such as movement from slave plantations to hinterland peasant communities; from small towns to modern, industrial cities in the island; and from colonial citizens in the island to immigrant, minority outsiders in inner city neighborhoods in the U.S.