Using a multifaceted and transdisciplinary approach, Marisol Lebrón analyzes the development of punitive governance in Puerto Rico. Lebrón’s approach pays particular attention to how capitalist colonial settings in Puerto Rico lead to the categorization of racialized, gendered, and classed populations as problematic subjects who then become the target of state violence as public policy. Intertwined with the state and its legitimacy, the book also looks at how these populations resist repressive policies and affect social relations of power on the island.
Articles by Angel Rodriguez Rivera
Angel Rodriguez-Rivera is an Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey. He has a MSW in community social work from the University of Puerto Rico–Rio Piedras Campus. Also has a PhD in Sociology from Purdue University in Indiana, with a specialty in political economy. His areas of academic interests are varied. He has done research in the state formation process in postcolonial setting. He has also done research about race and racial relations in Puerto Rico. He has particular interests in the process of acting race and the racial categories that arise out that process. Dr. Rodriguez also researches popular music in Puerto Rico and how it reflects processes of exploitation and resistance in a post-Fordist stage of capitalism. Recently, he has been researching social movements and their relations to mass media.