Beyond Disaster by Melissa L Rosario - 9780810146730

Beyond DisasterBuilding Collective Futures in Puerto Rico\nAuthor(s): Melissa L Rosario\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Northwestern University Press, United States\nImprint: Northwestern University Press\nISBN-13: 9780810146730, 978-0810146730\nSynopsis\nAn alternative view of Puerto Ricos past, present, and future How do we map the pathways to liberation where we have been taught to see only trauma, suffering, and lack? Melissa L. Rosario offers an alternative view of Puerto Rico, Americas oldest colony, removing readers from the framework of crisis to consider the deeper legacies of its current impasse. Beyond Disaster: Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico is an intimate portrait, weaving insights from the authors own life, research, and organizing work as a scholar in the diaspora who rematriated. Rosario bridges the genres of social history and memoir to unsettle the meaning of resistance and freedom, underscoring the deep wounds of colonialism while still uplifting the pro.