The Journal of American Ethnic History | Vol. 22 No. 3

Review Essay

Volume 22 • Number 4

Summer 2003

PUERTO RICANS AND U.S. COLONIALISM
Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution. Edited by Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 2001. xv + 422 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies. By Carmen Teresa Whalen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2001. xiii + 309 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Maura I. Toro-Morn
Illinois State University

The two books under review represent a welcome addition to the growing literature on Puerto Rican studies. Although each book aims to engage theoretical and methodological issues in their respective disciplines (i.e., legal studies and history), they exemplify the kind of cross-fertilization between area studies and traditional disciplines that can be so stimulating and produce much fertile ground for discussion and engagement.

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