Albany, New York.: State University of New York Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
304 p, Rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on recent theorizations of post-structuralism, feminism, critical criminology, subaltern studies, and post-coloniality he examines the mechanisms through which colonized subjects become recognized, contained, and represented as subordinate. At issue are the cultural practices that necessarily accompanied and aided U. S. colonialist enterprises in Puerto Rico during a shift in the world capitalist market and in geopolitical hegemony with the Caribbean.
A benefit-cost analysis was performed on varying levels of standard buildings codes for Haiti and Puerto Rico. It was found that in the two areas studied, the expected loss of life was reduced the most by use of high seismic building code levels, but lower levels of seismic building code were more cost-effective when considering only building damages and the costs for code implementation.
Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
153 p, Analyzes "the social and economic characteristics of ... persons who have returned to Puerto Rico ---the return migrants" (p. 8). Thus, it approaches
the study of migration from a perspective not usually taken in migration
studies. The author uses three sources of data: (1) a survey of arrivals and
departures at the San Juan International Airport, (2) special census tabula-
tions, and (3) a "motive" study of 307 return migrants. --John W. Prehn, Social Forces (1968) 47 (1), p. 97.
