| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective. By Ramón Grosfoguel. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xvi, 268 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-520-23020-5. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-520-23021-3.)

In this ambitious book, Ramón Grosfoguel takes on some of the really big questions for a younger generation of leftist scholars of sociology, ethnic studies, and studies of colonialism. Where an older generation forged its methodological tools in the crucible of the post–World War II decolonization struggles and racial justice movements, current scholarship, as Grosfoguel argues poignantly, has to take account of the failures of revolutionary movements, the massive international migrations of the post-1965 period, and the inadequacy of an economism rooted in Marxism adequately to explain social relationships structured by race or gender. Grosfoguel is unsparing in his assessment of the inadequacies of leftist political programs. Thinking particularly of Latin America, he argues that revolutionary movements have become authoritarian regimes every bit as bad as the region's right-wing dictatorships; that programs for national independence from Euro-America have evolved into neocolonial relationships of dependence through debt and the political and economic activities of international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. He also points to a problem that is giving rise to radical movements throughout the region: the race-based disenfranchisement of indigenous peoples.

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