"Next week marks the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria ripping Puerto Rico apart, killing an estimated 3,000 people and wracking nearly $100 billion in damages on an island already suffering a deep financial crisis. ... [Governor Ricardo] Rosselló’s resignation and the massive protests surrounding it brought the bright spotlight of international media for a few weeks, before attention inevitably turned away. It was a familiar dynamic to freelance journalist and educator Ed Morales, who, in his new book Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, explains how the island’s colonial status and the ways its economy was set up as a captive market for US corporations led to its modern day debt crisis and the neoliberal austerity measures that have followed. ..."
Mother Jones: How American Colonialism Put Puerto Rico in Crisis
NY Times - ‘It’s Not Full Citizenship’: What It Means to Be Puerto Rican Post-María
Latino Rebels: Welcome to Fantasy Island (Audio)
amazon
Voice: A Cartoon History of Colonialism in Puerto Rico
Voice: A Cartoon History of Colonialism in Puerto Rico
2017 December: Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Artists with the Shovels, 2017 June: Rhythm & Power: Salsa in New York, 2018 January: Nuyorican, 2018 January: Meet the Puerto Ricans Who Fled to New York After Maria
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