Obstinate Star

A History of the Puerto Rico Independence Movement

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Rafael Bernabe
Obstinate Star is a history of Puerto Rico’s independence struggle against Spanish and U.S. colonialism. From the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it traces the movement’s currents, within and beyond the island, linking them to ongoing social conflicts and international trends and conjunctures. Beginning with the radical democratic fight against Spanish control, it moves on to the early reactions to U.S. rule, the role of Nationalism, Communism and New Deal currents during the Great Depression and the Second World War, the rise of new forces in the wake of the Cuban revolution and recent struggles in the epoch of capitalist globalisation.
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2025
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Dedication
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Absolutism, Capitalism and Nationalism
Chapter 2 From Napoleon’s Invasion to the Colombian Connection, 1809–23
Chapter 3 Exclusion and the Crystallisation of Difference, 1837–60
Chapter 4 Abolitionism, Reform and the Path to Revolution, 1850–66
Chapter 5 Lares and Its Aftermath, 1867–74
Chapter 6 Cosmopolitan Patriots, 1874–90
Chapter 7 New York, Paris and the Cuban Connection, 1890–98
Chapter 8 New Century, New Empire: Hostos and the Imperial Republic, 1898–1903
Chapter 9 Independentista Variations: Radical Inclinations, 1904–30
Chapter 10 Independentista Variations: Conservative Reactions, 1904–30
Chapter 11 Labour, Colonialism and Independence, 1898–1930
Chapter 12 Puerto Rican Janus: Pedro Albizu Campos (I)
Chapter 13 Puerto Rican Janus: Pedro Albizu Campos (II)
Chapter 14 Luis Muñoz Marín, Social Protest and the New Deal
Chapter 15 Communists and Independent Communists, 1930–35
Chapter 16 1936: Confrontation and the Crisis of Colonial Rule
Chapter 17 Independence in Puerto Rico and New York, 1936–40
Chapter 18 The PPD and the Popular Front, 1940–44
Chapter 19 Communism, Nationalism and the War against Fascism, 1938–45
Chapter 20 Hiding in Plain View: Nationalists, Trotskyists, Communists, 1938–1945
Chapter 21 The Turning Point That Wasn’t, 1945–6
Chapter 22 Bullets and Ballots: Resistance to Colonial Reform, 1946–50
Chapter 23 Communist Crosscurrents, 1946–54
Chapter 24 Hardest Times: Independence in the 1950s
Chapter 25 The MPI and the New Struggle for Independence, 1959–75
Chapter 26 Strategic Debates and Divisions, 1959–75
Chapter 27 Democratic Socialism: The Battle for the New PIP
Chapter 28 Radical Politics and Culture beyond the MPI and the PIP
Chapter 29 In New York and beyond: The New Struggle in the Diaspora, 1967–82
Chapter 30 The Crisis of the PSP and the Search for Alternatives
Chapter 31 Independence Underground: Armed Struggle, 1974–85
Chapter 32 Independence in the Time of Neoliberal Globalisation
Chapter 33 Colonial Crisis and Signs of Resurgence
Conclusion
Appendix James N. Sager: Communism and Nationalism in Puerto Rico, 1925–7
Back Matter
References
Index
Rafael Bernabe, Ph.D. (1989), State University of New York, teaches at the University of Puerto Rico. His works include Walt Whitman and his Caribbean Interlocutors (Brill 2021) and (with César Ayala) Puerto Rico in the American Century (University of North Carolina 2006).
The book will be of interest to persons or institutions working on colonialism and anti-colonialism, nationalism and national liberation, labour struggles in colonial contexts, and U.S. and Caribbean history.
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