Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution (2001)

Format: Trade Paperback ISBN: 0822326981 Condition: Very Good The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Contents Description: More than four million United States citizens currently live in five "unincorporated" U.S. territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied full representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. Focusing on Puerto Rico, the largest and most populous of the territories, this book sheds much-needed light on the United States' unfinished colonial experiment and its legacy of racially rooted imperialism, while insisting on the centrality of these "marginal" regions in any serious treatment of American constitutional history. - from the back cover