| Abstract: | Abstract This article briefly examines why the new histories of 1898–1930 Puerto Rico have not explored the full range of 'native' laboring-poor responses to being transformed into a proletarianized workforce. Drawing on my recent research on this question. I primarily critique the handful of historiographies that actually concentrate on what Foucault called the 'popular illegalities.'My analysis rethinks the historicity of such transgressions by exploring why these social practices tend to be separated from, or perceived as antagonistic to, the subaltern responses blocking the advance of capitalist socioeconomic relations in this U.S. overseas colony. |
