The Criollo Bloc: Corruption Narratives and the Reproduction of Colonial Elites in Puerto Rico, 1860–1917.
This paper argues that corruption and anti-corruption narratives are discursive frames assembled to reproduce class power in Puerto Rico’s colonial political economy. To assert that argument, I trace the formation of the archipelago’s hegemonic group since the end of Spanish colonialism (1860-1898)...
| Publicado en: | Centro Journal Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 27 - 51 |
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Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)
Summer2022
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