Passive Puerto Rico and Revolutionary Cuba? Myths and realities from a historical perspective

Abstract

Cuba and Puerto Rico are the Latin American societies whose histories are most intimately connected with the political development of the United States as an imperial super power in the twentieth century. When the United States invaded both islands in 1898, they not only became central to the growth of economic control of the region by the United States, but the events of 1898 forever transformed political destinies and national identity. of the three companies. After 1898, imperial expansion did not notably improve the economic conditions of the lower classes in the United States, but it did provide a kind of ideological adherence through racialized and gender power that millions of European immigrants with little in common shared in celebrations of imperial whiteness in America