Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Across the empire, backwaters became battle stations. And with the military came federal money, washing indiscriminately over lands long parched by neglect. In Puerto Rico, workers moved from faltering sugar plantations to jobs building and operating military bases. By 1950, the federal government had spent $1.2 billion there. The same thing happen
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benefited from the soaring global interest in hula.3
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The hypocrisy of this final assignment was a fitting coda to the symphony of sleaze and slaughter that the United States bestowed on Puerto Rico in the name of good government. Winship was walking tall, waving documents, pointing fingers, trying others for their atrocities.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans
commodification of their bodies and art as hula took them in unexpected directions outside of the islands.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
