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Puerto Rico
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Current Overview
World Factbook Entry for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (CFR 2022 report)
Historic and current overview
Basic Business & Population Statistics on PR
Census Bureau Info for Puerto Rico
Political Status of Puerto Rico: Brief Background and Recent Developments (CRS July 2022 report)
Puerto Rican Participation in the U.S. Military
Historical Background
Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean
Covers historical background up until 2002.
Story Map: On Language and Colony (Library of Congress)
This story will take the viewer through the historical path of the island of Puerto Rico since its colonization in 1493 and consequent linguistic changes.
Puerto Rico: Resource Guide (Library of Congress)
Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Statehood / Status
Should Puerto Rico Become a State?
Pros and Cons
Puerto Rico's Only Legally & Constitutionally Viable Political Status Options
Chart explaining differences between territory, state, sovereign nation, and sovereign nation in free association.
The Statehood Process and Political Status of U.S. Territories (CRS July 2022 report)
Economic Benefits of Puerto Rico Statehood [fact sheet]
America's Forgotten Colony: Ending Puerto Rico's Perpetual Crisis
article from Foreign Affairs supporting PR's right to choose a status regardless of the outcome
Let Puerto Rico Be Free
Article from The Atlantic supporting PR independence
Puerto Rico Libre
Article from National Review supporting PR independence.
Will Puerto Rico Become a State? (book chapter)
The 51st State?
Article from History Today magazine. Argues that PR history, power dynamics, and low voter turnouts will defeat statehood efforts.
PR51st
website info supporting PR statehood; includes simplified overviews of all major points
Puerto Rico Report
website info on PR and statehood
Puerto Rico Status Act (H.R. 8393; passed 12/15/2022)
House Passes Bill That Could Pave the Way for Puerto Rican Statehood
Videos & Podcasts
Books for Further Reading
Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know
by
Duany (2017)
Call Number: 4th Floor; 972.95 D85p
Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico: How Politics Destroyed an Economic Miracle
by
Maldonado (2021)
The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico
by
Barreto (2020)
Economic History of Puerto Rico
by
Dietz (2018)
Borderline Citizens: the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration
by
McGreevey (2018)
Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States
by
Alamo-Pastrana (2016)
The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico
by
Sotomayor (2016)
Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity
by
Ortíz Cuadra (2013)
Decolonization Models for America's Last Colony: Puerto Rico
by
Collado-Schwarz (2011)
America's Colony: Political and Cultural Conflict Between the United States and Puerto Rico
by
Malavet (2004)
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