Contested Territory: Puerto Rican Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in the Early Twentieth Century

Abstract This article uses the case of Bolívar Ochart, a midlevel member of the Socialist Party of Puerto Rico, to explore the ways that labor leaders navigated the Puerto Rican polity after the 1898 US occupation of the archipelago. The Socialist Party radically challenged the new carceral logics through its prison reform stance. Since it was the only political party in which most of its leadership had all been imprisoned, it also offered a space for formerly incarcerated, self-educated workers to become career politicians. Ultimately, this essay tells the story of how Ochart went from being a convict to receiving an executive pardon, publishing a groundbreaking book, and later becoming an elected official.

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The Historical and the Philosophical

Pauline Ugliness ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823286553.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 13-21

Author(s):

Ole Jakob Løland

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Intellectual Life ◽

Contemporary Philosophy ◽

Slavoj Zizek ◽

Alain Badiou ◽

Disciplinary Boundaries ◽

Slavoj Žižek ◽

Early Twentieth Century

Recent discussions about Paul the apostle and contemporary philosophy have been taking place as conservations of disciplinary boundaries between history and philosophy. The competing paradigms for claims of ownership to the “truth” about Paul between historical and philosophical perspectives were expressed at a debate between philosophers (Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou) and biblical scholars about the new philosophical interest in Paul. As a precursor for the philosophers’ appropriation of the Pauline legacy, Jacob Taubes deliberately crossed the disciplinary boundaries separating history from philosophy. Taubes provocatively made claims about the supremacy of Nietzsche’s understanding of Paul vis-à-vis historically oriented biblical exegetes, and Taubes’s contributions are unavoidably implicated in this disciplinary competition. In Taubes’s case this violation of disciplinary boundaries has roots in a criticism of historicism with origins in German intellectual life of early twentieth century.

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Puerto Rican Women Workers in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Appraisal of the Literature

Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives ◽

10.4324/9781315701356-9 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 48-71

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Women Workers ◽

Puerto Rican ◽

Puerto Rican Women

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A ‘Northern Athens’? Cultural and intellectual life

Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781789620313.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 92-139

Author(s):

Alice Johnson

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Intellectual Life ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Victorian Period ◽

Music Literature ◽

Scientific Associations

In the Victorian period, Belfast was known as the ‘Northern Athens’ – a title which referred to the city’s cultural and intellectual credentials. The term was still being used in the early twentieth century. Yet in the second half of the nineteenth century, as the city’s cultural societies struggled to survive, Belfast’s cultural claims were increasingly under question. By the end of the century it was felt that Belfast was now known more for its hard-headed business character than for its culture. This chapter assesses the cultural and intellectual life of Victorian Belfast and questions the validity of the ‘cultural centre to cultural desert’ narrative. It offers a nuanced discussion of the city’s cultural strengths and weaknesses and those of comparable provincial centres elsewhere. Cultural and scientific associations are examined in some detail; and theatre, music, literature and newspapers are all covered. In addition, the mental intellectual landscape of Belfast’s middle-class elite is discussed.

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Empire and Migration: Coastwise Shipping, National Status, and the Colonial Legal Origins of Puerto Rican Migration to the United States

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ◽

10.1017/s1537781412000394 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 553-573 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert C. McGreevey

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Puerto Rican ◽

The United States ◽

Migration Patterns ◽

Legal Origins ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

And Migration ◽

The U.S

This article examines colonial legal categories such as “national status” and “coastwise shipping” that shaped the movement of goods and people between U.S. colonies and the metropole. Focused on the case of Puerto Rican migration to the U.S. mainland in the early twentieth century, it argues that these legal categories conditioned migration patterns and that migrants, in turn, actively shaped new legal categories. Drawing on sources from both U.S. and Puerto Rican archives, this article contributes to an emerging body of literature on U.S. imperialism, law, and migration in the Americas. It shows that colonial legal categories are critical to understanding enduring migration streams to the United States that have long been embedded in imperial relationships.

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Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽

10.1017/s0040298200053596 ◽

1948 ◽

pp. 25-28

Author(s):

Andrzej Panufnik

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Fertile Soil ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Progressive Group ◽

Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

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