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Title: VIEQUES, THE NAVY AND PUERTO RICAN POLITICS
By: Amilcar Antonio Barreto
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0813024722
ISBN 13: 9780813024721
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA
Pub. date: 30 June, 2002
Series: New Directions in Puerto Rican Studies
Pages: 192
Description: In this analysis of the dispute over the US Navy's bombing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Amilcar Barreto looks at the political fallout from the accidental killing of a civilian in 1999, including its impact on Puerto Rican nationalism and ethnic mobilization.
Synopsis: In this analysis of the dispute over the U.S. Navy's bombing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Amflcar Barreto looks at the political fallout from the accidental killing of a civilian in 1999, including its impact on Puerto Rican nationalism and ethnic mobilization. In so doing, he finds in the Vleques crisis a metaphor for a larger set of Puerto Rican crises and conflicts. Barreto sets the scene for understanding why Vleques has become a defining protest issue in Puerto Rican politics by providing a comprehensive historical account of protest by Puerto Ricans living in Puerto Rico and in the United States and by telling the story of the island's nagging colonial status under the United States. While the political nature of the Vleques issue remains the focus of the book, he highlights its military aspects, particularly the policy stances of the U.S. Navy. He demonstrates how the U.S. military in the Vieques crisis became not just a catalyst for but an unwitting accomplice in the process of Puerto Rican ethnic mobilization, helping to set the stage for the emergence of a more vigorous and militant cultural nationalism.Barreto also supplies a credible explanation for the surprisingly consensual reaction among Puerto Ricans of all political stripes to what many observers regarded as an unjust assault on the life and livelihood of Vieques residents and an example of U.S. political arrogance. In the course of identifying Vieques as a defining protest issue in Puerto Rican politics, Barreto avoids a weakness common to other treatments of the island's politics by documenting the links between protest and activism in Puerto Rico and in the United States.
Illustrations: 2 maps, bibliography, index
Publication: US
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Returns: Returnable
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