{"product_id":"9781558764101","title":"American Colonialism in Puerto Rico: The Judicial and Social Legacy","description":"\"This is a brilliant and outstanding book, quite persuasive in the way it interrogates  history. Dr. Rivera Ramos performs the immense service of providing  a serious discussion of the complexity of Puerto Rican history and political  culture as well as a provocative rethinking of how imperial power works.\"  \u003cbr\u003e--Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, Princeton University  \u003cp\u003e\"The author places himself and Puerto Rican identity in the political and legal  struggle over the status of the island. ... This is a brilliant and expansive book.\"  \u003cbr\u003e--The Law and Politics Book Review  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This important book analyzes the conviction among [many] Puerto Ricans  that their stability is guaranteed by law. ... It is a colonialism with rights that  enjoys the consent of the colonized, thanks to the employment of certain  methods of persuasion and coercion (for example, criminalizing the independence  movement). The fact is that Puerto Rico has lived under norms determined  by others. ... Provocative, extremely well documented, and innovative in  many of its approaches.\" \u003cbr\u003e--El Nuevo Día  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[This book] makes an eloquent case for law as an ideological phenomenon,  and for its centrality to the culture of colonialism in Puerto Rico.\"  \u003cbr\u003e--Susan U. Philips, author of  U.S. Colonial Law and the Creation of Marginalized Political Entities  EFRÉN RIVERA RAMOS, University of Puerto Rico, is the author of Colonialism  and Integration in the Contemporary Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiener, Markus Publishers, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49787032436976,"sku":"9781558764101","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781558764101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}