The Capital Insurrection and the Puerto Rican Summer Uprising

Authors

Pedro Caban, University at Albany, State University of New YorkFollow

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Response or Comment

Publication Date

4-9-2020

Abstract

The Capital insurrection in Washington DC was not an anomaly in American Politics. It was the latest instance of a history of violence by white supremacists to preserve their power and status at the cost of democracy. The uprising in Puerto Rico in Summer 2019 was a massive social movement to restore democracy by removing a corrupt government that was unaccountable to the people,

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Recommended Citation

Caban, Pedro, "The Capital Insurrection and the Puerto Rican Summer Uprising" (2020). Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship. 44.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/lacs_fac_scholar/44