Lanny Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lanny Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lanny |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puerto Rico System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Imperial Islands
When the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana's harbor on February 15, 1898, the United States joined local rebel forces to avenge the Maine and "liberate" Cuba from the Spanish empire. "Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!" so went the popular slogan. Little did the Cubans know that the United States was not going to give them freedom-in less than a year the American flag replaced the Spanish flag over the various island colonies of Cuba…
Motherless Tongues
This book is an excellent collection of previously published articles with a new introduction and interview that brilliantly lay out the theoretical underpinnings of Vicente L. Rafael's historical writings over his academic career. According to the author, “translation” is not a transparent, impartial process of converting one language into another (p. 193). Rather, it encompasses struggles that produce contradictions and conflict, imposition and…
Colonial Governmentality in Puerto Rico and the Philippines
This chapter will address the deployments of colonial governmentality during the first decade of US dominion in Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Governmentality is understood as dispositive, that is, an ensemble of the apparatuses of governmental rationality, sovereignty, and discipline. This chapter will examine the shifting configurations of some of the specific apparatuses of necro- and biopolitics, coercive security forces, disciplinary insti…
Islanders in the Empire
Negotiating Empire
Aesthetics and Empire
This article examines the “sense of beauty” in the United States imperial archipelago, composed of the island territories of Cuba, Hawai`i, Philippines, and Puerto Rico, all acquired in 1898. The theoretical connection among these two elements –aesthetics and empire– is provided by a revision of the concepts “economy of colonial desire” and “complex of visuality.” This paper analyzes the most advanced visual technology of the late nineteenth cent…
The Third Asiatic Invasion
Imperial Archipelago
Imperial Archipelago
This book is a comparative study of the symbolic representations, both textual and photographic, of Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico that appeared in popular and official publications in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898. It examines the connections between these representations and the forms of rule established by the United States in each at the turn of the century—thus answering the question why different go…
The Imperial Republic
The doctrine of incorporation, as elaborated in legal debates and legitimated by the U.S. Supreme Court, excluded the inhabitants of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam from the body politic of the United States on the basis of their cultural differences from dominant European American culture. However, in spite of their shared legal status as unincorporated territories, the U.S. Congress established different governments that, although adapta…
Mexico City
Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century, the workforce in Mexico City can be conveniently divided into three basic groups. First, there were the common laborers. They were employed as unskilled labor in workshops, as day labor on construction sites, and as factory operatives and outworkers. Secondly, there were the skilled artisans working for wages, who maintained a status somewhat higher than common laborers. Thirdly, there were th…
Central Mexico
Throughout the nineteenth century the vast majority of the agricultural labor force employed by the estates of central Mexico consisted of temporary wage laborers, who worked only during the peak agricultural seasons, about six months out of the year. Most of these laborers were residents of small settlements ( pueblos or ranchos ), more or less independent of the large estates. The “debt peon,” who was permanently tied to a large hacienda, repre…
Creating and Transforming Households
This book, first published in 1992, seeks an explanation of the pattern of sharp discrepancy of wage levels across the world-economy for work of comparable productivity. It explores how far such differences can be explained by the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units', examining three key variables: location in the core or periphery of the world-economy; periods of expansion versus periods of contraction in the world-econom…
Migration in a Small Semiperiphery
This article argues that the semiperipheral development of Puerto Rico since around 1975 has led to the creation of a relative labor surplus in the formal sectors of the economy while at the same time increasing the demand for cheap labor in the informal service sector. Thus, Puerto Ricans leave their country in search of good jobs in the United States while Dominicans migrate to Puerto Rico and find work in the informal sector. The return migrat…
Migration in a Small Semiperiphery
Imperial Archipelago
This book is a comparative study of the symbolic representations, both textual and photographic, of Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico that appeared in popular and official publications in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898. It examines the connections between these representations and the forms of rule established by the United States in each at the turn of the century—thus answering the question why different go…
The Imperial Republic
The doctrine of incorporation, as elaborated in legal debates and legitimated by the U.S. Supreme Court, excluded the inhabitants of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam from the body politic of the United States on the basis of their cultural differences from dominant European American culture. However, in spite of their shared legal status as unincorporated territories, the U.S. Congress established different governments that, although adapta…
The Third Asiatic Invasion
Migration in a Small Semiperiphery
This article argues that the semiperipheral development of Puerto Rico since around 1975 has led to the creation of a relative labor surplus in the formal sectors of the economy while at the same time increasing the demand for cheap labor in the informal service sector. Thus, Puerto Ricans leave their country in search of good jobs in the United States while Dominicans migrate to Puerto Rico and find work in the informal sector. The return migrat…
Migration in a Small Semiperiphery
Aesthetics and Empire
This article examines the “sense of beauty” in the United States imperial archipelago, composed of the island territories of Cuba, Hawai`i, Philippines, and Puerto Rico, all acquired in 1898. The theoretical connection among these two elements –aesthetics and empire– is provided by a revision of the concepts “economy of colonial desire” and “complex of visuality.” This paper analyzes the most advanced visual technology of the late nineteenth cent…
Migration in a Small Semiperiphery
This article argues that the semiperipheral development of Puerto Rico since around 1975 has led to the creation of a relative labor surplus in the formal sectors of the economy while at the same time increasing the demand for cheap labor in the informal service sector. Thus, Puerto Ricans leave their country in search of good jobs in the United States while Dominicans migrate to Puerto Rico and find work in the informal sector. The return migrat…
Migration in a Small Semiperiphery
Mexico City
Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century, the workforce in Mexico City can be conveniently divided into three basic groups. First, there were the common laborers. They were employed as unskilled labor in workshops, as day labor on construction sites, and as factory operatives and outworkers. Secondly, there were the skilled artisans working for wages, who maintained a status somewhat higher than common laborers. Thirdly, there were th…
Central Mexico
Throughout the nineteenth century the vast majority of the agricultural labor force employed by the estates of central Mexico consisted of temporary wage laborers, who worked only during the peak agricultural seasons, about six months out of the year. Most of these laborers were residents of small settlements ( pueblos or ranchos ), more or less independent of the large estates. The “debt peon,” who was permanently tied to a large hacienda, repre…
Creating and Transforming Households
This book, first published in 1992, seeks an explanation of the pattern of sharp discrepancy of wage levels across the world-economy for work of comparable productivity. It explores how far such differences can be explained by the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units', examining three key variables: location in the core or periphery of the world-economy; periods of expansion versus periods of contraction in the world-econom…
The Imperial Republic
The doctrine of incorporation, as elaborated in legal debates and legitimated by the U.S. Supreme Court, excluded the inhabitants of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam from the body politic of the United States on the basis of their cultural differences from dominant European American culture. However, in spite of their shared legal status as unincorporated territories, the U.S. Congress established different governments that, although adapta…
Imperial Archipelago
Imperial Archipelago
This book is a comparative study of the symbolic representations, both textual and photographic, of Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico that appeared in popular and official publications in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898. It examines the connections between these representations and the forms of rule established by the United States in each at the turn of the century—thus answering the question why different go…
Aesthetics and Empire
This article examines the “sense of beauty” in the United States imperial archipelago, composed of the island territories of Cuba, Hawai`i, Philippines, and Puerto Rico, all acquired in 1898. The theoretical connection among these two elements –aesthetics and empire– is provided by a revision of the concepts “economy of colonial desire” and “complex of visuality.” This paper analyzes the most advanced visual technology of the late nineteenth cent…
The Third Asiatic Invasion
Negotiating Empire
Islanders in the Empire
Colonial Governmentality in Puerto Rico and the Philippines
This chapter will address the deployments of colonial governmentality during the first decade of US dominion in Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Governmentality is understood as dispositive, that is, an ensemble of the apparatuses of governmental rationality, sovereignty, and discipline. This chapter will examine the shifting configurations of some of the specific apparatuses of necro- and biopolitics, coercive security forces, disciplinary insti…
Motherless Tongues
This book is an excellent collection of previously published articles with a new introduction and interview that brilliantly lay out the theoretical underpinnings of Vicente L. Rafael's historical writings over his academic career. According to the author, “translation” is not a transparent, impartial process of converting one language into another (p. 193). Rather, it encompasses struggles that produce contradictions and conflict, imposition and…
Imperial Islands
When the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana's harbor on February 15, 1898, the United States joined local rebel forces to avenge the Maine and "liberate" Cuba from the Spanish empire. "Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!" so went the popular slogan. Little did the Cubans know that the United States was not going to give them freedom-in less than a year the American flag replaced the Spanish flag over the various island colonies of Cuba…
Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (7 works) · History (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philippine History and Culture (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Empire (4 works)