In 2000, President Bill Clinton established the President’s Task Force on Puerto Rico’s Status. The Task Force would ultimately go on to release three reports,… Read More »A Page from History: What the White House Says About U.S. Citizenship in a New Nation of Puerto Rico
A Facebook page asked visitors a question: did they favor statehood for Puerto Rico? Visitors posted numerous responses. A direct count of reactions showed that… Read More »Talking about Puerto Rico: An AI Analysis of Social Media
“Young people are afraid of being labeled colonists, oppressors and bigots,” college sophomore Leo Glasgow wrote recently in the Cornell Daily Sun. In our examinations… Read More »Shame on the United States?
Puerto Rican economist José Caraballo Cueto has published a new study: “The Puerto Rico Economy Under Different Political Statuses.” In it, Caraballo Cueto compares possible… Read More »The Puerto Rico Economy Under Different Political Statuses
Decolonization is an important idea and a trendy one, too, with calls to decolonize healthcare, schools, museums, religion, artificial intelligence, and more turning up across… Read More »Puerto Rico as a Decolonization Priority
On December 6, Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R-PR) spoke before the House Agriculture Committee to advocate for the transition of Puerto Rico into the federal Supplemental… Read More »Rep. Gonzalez-Colon Urges NAP to SNAP Transition
U.S. classrooms studying colonialism often focus on the colonial heritage of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. Sometimes the colonialism of the… Read More »For Educators – Colonialism in the U.S. Today
When one country aggressively sends settlers who take possession of another – usually distant – area, it becomes a colony. Puerto Rico is an example.… Read More »For Educators – Understanding Colonialism: What’s a Colony?
Even supporters of the Puerto Rico Status Act (PRSA), a bill pending before Congress, are quick to point out that it is not perfect. The… Read More »PRSA: What is the Elephant in the Room?
