Making NeverNever Land by Monica A. Jimenez PAPERBACK 9781469678450

Name: Making NeverNever Land by Monica A. Jimenez PAPERBACK 9781469678450
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press

Puerto Rico has been an \""unincorporated territory\"" of the United States for over a century. For much of that time, the archipelago has been mostly invisible to US residents and neglected by the government. Recently, a series of crises, from outsized debt to climate fueled disasters, have led to massive protests and brought Puerto Rico greater visibility. \nMonica A. Jimenez argues that to fully understand how and why Puerto Rico finds itself in this current moment of precarity, we must look to a larger history of US settler colonialism and racial exclusion in law. The federal policies and jurisprudence that created Puerto Rico exist within a larger pantheon of exclusionary, race-based laws and policies that have carved out \""states of exception\"" for racial undesirables: Native Americans,\n\nMaking Never-Never Land\nRace and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.;