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.
Current Events in Historical Perspective
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C-SPAN June 22, 2018 A panel of historians discussed U.S. immigration policies and migration patterns to America dating back to the late 19th century. The topics covered in a session titled “The Geopolitics of Migration” include Chinese and Mexican immigration, travel restrictions in the civil rights era, and the criteria…
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A brief interview of contemporary U.S. immigration politics in historical perspective.
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NPR, January 29, 2015 Guantanamo Bay is home to the United States’ oldest overseas base. And since it was established in 1903, the base has been a bone of contention in U.S. and Cuban relations. Melissa Block talks to Vanderbilt History professor Paul Kramer.
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