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Rhetorics of Defiance: Gender, Colonialism, and Lolita Lebrón’s Struggle for Puerto Rican Sovereignty

Karrieann Soto Vega

Dissertation Defense

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Lolita Lebrón

(1919-2010)

PR Nationalist Party Flag

Grito de Lares | First Puerto Rican Flag

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Lexington, KY

1970s