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Land Reform in Puerto RicoModernizing the Colonial State, 19411969$
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Land Reform in Puerto Rico: Modernizing the Colonial State, 19411969

Ismael Garcia-Colon

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780813033631

Published to Florida Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.5744/florida/9780813033631.001.0001

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Conclusion

Conclusion

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(p.129) 8 Conclusion
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Land Reform in Puerto Rico
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Ismael García-Colón

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University Press of Florida
DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813033631.003.0008

This chapter presents an analysis of the impact the Agregado Resettlement Program had in contemporary Puerto Rico. It is stated that landless workers' lives were transformed through the Agregado Resettlement Program. However, the process of change unfolded in a different way from what Popular Democratic Party (PPD) and New Deal figures — government officials, politicians, and intellectuals — expected to occur. The parcelas, through conceived of as part of land reform, became a new model of urbanization, a particular form of organizing urban space. Land resettlement, state formation, and the transformation of subjectivity also brought change to the political sphere. The landless past described in this book is unknown to many of the new generations of Puerto Ricans, but vividly remembered by the first parcela settlers.

Keywords:   Agregado Resettlement Program, Puerto Rico, landless workers, Popular Democratic Party, New Deal, parcelas, urbanization, land resettlement

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