The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico Revisited

This essay reviews the following works: The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico Revisited. By Amilcar Antonio Barreto. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020, Pp. xii + 248. $80.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781683401131. Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the US Constitution, and Empire. By Sam Erman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019, Pp. xv + 275. $30.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108233866. Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms. By Ismael Garcia-Colon. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020, Pp. xvii + 326. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520325791. Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building: National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940. By Naida Garcia-Crespo. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University, 2019, Pp. ix + 226. $34.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781684481170. Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico. By Marisol Lebron. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019, Pp. xv + 301. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520300170. Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism. By Margaret M. Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023, Pp. vii + 298. $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781469674056.