Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Geopolitics of Knowledge and Coloniality of Power -- part one:l The Political Economy of Puerto Rico -- 1. The Political Economy of Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century and Puerto Rican Postnational Strategies -- 2. World Cities in the Caribbean: Miami and San Juan -- part two: Puerto Rican Migration and the Caribbean Diapora in the United States -- 3. Migration and Geopolitics in the Greater Antilles: From the Cold War to the Post-Cold War -- 4. Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Comparative Approach -- 5. Coloniality of Power" and Racial Dynamic:s Notes Toward a Reinterpretation of Latino Caribbeans in New York City " -- part three: Caribbean Colonial Migrants in Western Europe and the United States -- 6. Colonial Caribbean Migrations to France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and the United States -- 7. Cultural Racism" and Colonial Caribbean Migrants in Core Zones of the Capitalist World- Economy " -- Appendix -- References -- Index.