This talk at the Spring 2018 Princeton symposium “The Future of the Puerto Rican Body,” held in response to Hurricane Maria and the bankruptcy crisis, uses recent scholarship to explore the historical relationship between Puerto Rican migration to the mainland US and US colonialism in Puerto Rico.
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November 2018
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Lecture at the Society of U. S. Intellectual Historians, Chicago, November 10, 2018. This 12-minute talk to historians explores distinct elements of Trump’s racist politics, focusing on its stress on national borders and boundaries, its imperial globalism, and its enthusiasm for militarization and violence.