scholarly journals The Coloniality of Neoliberal English: The Enduring Structures of American Colonial English Instruction in the Philippines and Puerto Rico

L2 Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Funie Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
English Instruction

Credit—Without Banking—In Early Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico

1962 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Szászdi
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
College Professors ◽  
Savings Banks ◽  
Mineral Wealth ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
Financial Expert ◽  
Set Up ◽  
State Of Affairs

The title of this article seems to give the impression that its author is a financial expert. Unhappily, this is not the case. But—for quite unknown reasons—college professors are apt to acquire some empirical knowledge of credit facilities. Besides, I do not intend to give practical advice to anybody. I shall only try to show, how people in Puerto Rico, a century and a half ago, managed to survive—and at times prosper—in the midst of what some people used to call, not very affectionately, the “money complex.”What makes the question interesting is the lack of banks or other credit institutions. Apparently, the first small savings banks did not appear until the 1870's. The paucity, if not the absolute absence, of liquid capital characterizes Puerto Rico until the period under study. Such a state of affairs had remote causes. Puerto Rico, as Spain's second colony in the New World, had had a prosperous start in the sixteenth century. Some gold was found, and the firstingeniowas set up. But in the 1520's an exodus was set off by the attraction of the fabulous mineral wealth of the continent that was being conquered, an exodus that the threat of the death penalty was not able to stop effectively. The lack of sufficient settlers was then the initial cause of Puerto Rico's economic stagnation. Naturally, the following two hundred years should have been more than sufficient to allow recovery, for—popular beliefs to the contrary—mineral wealth was not the only source of economic prosperity in the Spanish monarchy. As a sample, the Philippines exported Chinese goods, Central America cocoa and dyestuff, Venezuela cocoa and tobacco, Guayaquil cocoa and timber, Quito textiles, Peru wine and flour, Chile flour and timber, Tucumán mules, Buenos Aires hides, and Cuba sugar and tobacco.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Gina K. Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
Us Empire ◽  
American Tropics

Beginning with a discussion of the mainstream US news coverage of the 2016 mass shooting at a Latinx party at Pulse (an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida), this chapter connects Puerto Rico to the Philippines through Allan Isaac’s notion of “American tropics.” US empire is intimately tied to trans and queer necropolitics, exemplified by the 2014 murder of Jennifer Laude (a Filipina trans woman) by Joseph Scott Pemberton, a white US Marine. However, queer and trans analyses are often elided within anti-imperialist scholarship and social movements. Inversely, a critique of empire is often missing from mainstream US queer and trans politics. Ultimately, this chapter calls for an integration of anti-imperialist politics with queer and trans social movements, especially within Filipina/o American diasporic nationalisms

Trial without Jury in Guam, USA

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-841
Author(s):  
Katherine Unterman
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Jury Trials ◽  
Civil Trials ◽  
Independence Movements ◽  
The U.S

This article adds to the growing literature about how the Supreme Court's decisions in the Insular Cases affected the residents of the U.S. territories. It focuses on the territory of Guam, which lacked juries in both criminal and civil trials until 1956–nearly sixty years after the island became a U.S. possession. Residents of Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands had limited jury trials, but Guam was left out due to its strategic military significance as well as racialized ideas about the capabilities of Chamorros, the native inhabitants of the island. This article recovers the struggle by Guamanians to gain jury trials. It argues that independence movements, like those in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, were not the only forms of resistance to American empire. Through petitions, court challenges, and other forms of activism, Guamanians pushed for jury trials as a way to assert local agency and engage in participatory democracy. For them, the Insular Cases were not just abstract rulings about whether the Constitution followed the flag; they deeply affected the administration of justice on the ground for ordinary Guamanians.

Revising the Colonialism-as-Romance Metaphor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Caronan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Movie Stars ◽  
Global Power

This chapter examines how Esmeralda Santiago's América's Dream and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters represent the rape of Puerto Rico and the Philippines through scattered references to United States bases, commodities, movie stars, and news. Although literary representations of rape in a colonial context often represented only the fear of foreign intrusion and the reality of conquest and colonialism, the chapter argues that Santiago and Hagedorn rewrite this narrative to capture the complexity of neocolonialism in Puerto Rico and the Philippines and to capture how global power has been rearticulated in the neocolonial era. Their novels also challenge the gendered assumption at the heart of this metaphor: women are the property of men.

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