From the back cover:
"Dr. Maldonado-Denis has written… a clear, reasoned description: first of the historical background of colonial usage and exploitation over the last three centuries, and second, of the social, economic, and cultural condition of contemporary Puerto Rican life as shaped by the still-continuing colonialism of American corporate capitalism … It manages as a result, to expose the unreality of the twin myths about Puerto Rico: that it is either a society of colonial servility and docility or a democratic ‘showcase of democracy’. It is a story told with sober detail and yet at the same time infused with a passionate indignation against all the forces, both American and indigenous, that have gone into the making of the Puerto Rican tragedy." -- Dr. Gordon K. Lewis
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