Article
Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony
Mich. J. Race and Law
(2000)
Abstract
A study of Puerto Rico's century-old legal relationship with the United States, and how it constructs Puerto Ricans as legal and social second-class citizens because of their cultural nationhood. The discriminatory treatment conflicts with contemporary notions of justice and morality in postmodern political and legal philosophy. The article articulates a framework for legal reform that is consistent with a new progressive theoretical construct of a pluralistic and communitarian form of liberalism. I further developed the material that I discuss in this article in my book: America's Colony: The Political and Cultural Conflict Between the United States and Puerto Rico (NYU Press 2005) (paperback edition 2007).
Keywords
- LatCrit Theory,
- Critical Race Theory,
- Colonialism,
- Puerto Rico,
- Citizenship Theory,
- Political Minorities
Disciplines
- Law and
- Law and Society
Publication Date
Fall 2000
Citation Information
Pedro A. Malavet. "Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony" Mich. J. Race and Law Vol. 6 Iss. 1 (2000) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/pedro_malavet/6/