War Against All Puerto Ricans
by Nelson Denis
The American colony that never made it into American history class.
you want to understand Puerto Rico's political history and why it looks exactly like every other colonial story
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Denis reconstructs the 1950 Puerto Rican Nationalist uprising — the attempt to assassinate Truman, the revolt in Jayuya, the Gag Law that made it illegal to own a Puerto Rican flag — alongside the biography of Pedro Albizu Campos, the Harvard-educated lawyer who led the independence movement and spent most of his life in American prisons. The history America doesn't teach about its own colony. A dispatch that makes clear that Puerto Rico's relationship with the United States has always been a colonial one, regardless of what the citizenship papers say.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Puerto Rico • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Puerto Rican author
- Themes
- After EmpireWitness
