CONTENTS
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Essential History
Chapter 1: The U.S. Expansionist Drive
Chapter 2: Puerto Rico Before 1898
Chapter 3: Puerto Rico Under the American Regime
Part II: The Judicial Construction of Colonialism
Chapter 4: The Legal Doctrine of the insular Cases
Chapter 5: The Legal Theory and Ideology of the Insular Cases
Chapter 6: The Constitutive Effects of the Insular Cases
Part III: The Production of Hegemony in Puerto Rican Society
Chapter 7: Hegemony Through Citizenship
Chapter 8: Hegemony Through Legal Consciousness: Rights,
Partial Democracy, and the Rule of Law
Conclusion
Afterword – Vieques
References
Table of Authority
Index
About the Author