CENTRO Journal vol. XXXIV, no. 2, Summer 2022
CENTRO Journal | Summer 2022 | Volume 34 | Number 2
SPECIAL ISSUE. Beyond Corruption: From Colonial Practices to Emancipatory Futures
Editores invitados / Guest Editors: José Atiles, Gustavo A. García López, and Joaquín Villanueva
ENSAYOS / ESSAYS
Introduction
Beyond Corruption and Anti-corruption Narratives: Introducing A Critical Research Agenda for Puerto Rican Studies
José Atiles, Gustavo A. García López, and Joaquín Villanueva
The Criollo Bloc: Corruption Narratives and the Reproduction of Colonial Elites in Puerto Rico, 1860–1917
Joaquín Villanueva
Instruments of Colonialism: Historicizing Corruption and Abuse in the Puerto Rico Police
Mónica A. Jiménez and Marisol LeBrón
Exploring How Colonialism Blames Puerto Rico for its Corruption
Cristalís Capielo Rosario, Hector Y. Adames, and Nancy J. Muro-Rodríguez
Framing Corruption: The Ley de Reforma Educativa and Puerto Rico's Education Scandal
Patricia M. Virella
The Imperious Rule of Julia Keleher: Gender, Race, and Colonialism in the Corruption of Public Education in Puerto Rico
Karrieann Soto Vega
In the Name of (Private) Progress: Intimidation and Harassment in Guaynabo’s Corrupt Practices to Displace Vietnam’s Residents
Jean Paul López-Cepero Virella and Mayra Vélez-Serrano
Environmental Corruption and the Colonial Growth Machine in Puerto Rico
Gustavo A. García López
La captura del estado: apuntes para estudiar grupos de poder y el uso de recursos públicos para beneficio privado
Iyari Ríos González
Political Discrimination as a Facilitator of Corruption: The Case of Puerto Rico
Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués
Development and Decay: Political Organization and Municipal Corruption in Puerto Rico, 1952–2015
Gustavo J. Bobonis, Luis Raúl Cámara Fuertes, Harold J. Toro, and Julie Wilson
Clientelism and Corruption in the Wake of Disasters
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Wendy Prudencio, Mary Angelica Painter, and Brevin Franklin
Disaster Fraud Prevention by Exclusion: Property, Homeownership, and Individual Housing Repair Aid in Puerto Rico
Sarah Molinari
From Anti-corruption to Decolonial Justice: A Sociolegal Analysis of the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019
José Atiles
“What do the doves say?” The Revolt Against Colonial Corruption in the Verano Boricua
Christopher Powers Guimond
RESEÑAS DE LIBROS / BOOK REVIEWS
Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico: How Politics Destroyed an Economic Miracle, by A.W. Maldonado
Reviewed by Angel I. Rivera Ortiz
Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture,by Marilisa Jiménez García
Reviewed by William Orchard
The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida, by Karen Jaime
Reviewed by Efraín Barradas
The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx, by Angel Garcia
Reviewed by Adán E. Stevens-Díaz
- ISSN:
- 1538-6279