Exam One – Tuesday, October 1���25 Questions�5 hours of preparation (readings/videos)�Exam is on Canvas and in class�(bring phone or laptop)��If you don’t spend the 5 hours, �you will not pass�
CLASS 10��Thursday - Sept 26��BEGIN - 0937��* if you have an issue, send your selfie directly to Yuli (staff@soc119.org)
Los Puertorriqueños
Average percent White “ancestry”�of Black Americans
Shriver, 2015
Puerto Rico is a self-governing “territory”
that is “owned” by the U.S. (Commonwealth)��U.S. “citizens” who can vote in presidential primaries
but not the (general) election.��Elect a governor and has a non-voting rep
in the U.S. House of Representatives
(Resident Commissioner)��Pay local, state, and most federal taxes –
but most do not pay federal income taxes.��2020 – 52.5% voted for full U.S. “statehood”
Borinquen
Class 10��MANDATORY SELFIE�Thursday – 9/26��Yuli will add your 1.5 points to Canvas
Del from Spain asked on the
Discord Server:
“If Puerto Ricans had the opportunity to choose, would they prefer…
- Independence
- Stay a territory
- Become a US State
- Join Spain as an Official Autonomous Community with EU Benefits)”
Matt from Italy asked on the
YouTube Live Chat:
“Can you give some examples
of true PR culture?
Something that true PR cans do/are
compared to fake ones? ”
itsmeiguss from the class asked on the
YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“Do schools in PR learn as heavily
about US history (and culture)
as we do on the “mainland”?”
The Nour Way watching from Ohi😔,
originally from Algeria asked
on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“What is the difference between
PR and Boriqua culture?”
Bob the Artist from the Pacific Northwest
asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“Could PR support itself
as an independent state?
If not, what would have to change?”
Eric from “right outside Philly”
asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“Is the lack of precision along with the ambiguity of the English language - confounded by lax attention to semantics - add to cultural confusion and misperception?”
itsmeiguss from the class asked on the
YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“From conversations we’ve had so far, specifically what Michael the other day:
A Greek American that identifies
as American first, Greek second.
Are PRs think that way, if so, why?
If not, why not?”
Bob the Artist from the Pacific Northwest asked on the YouTube Live Chat:
“Do PR people have a feeling of inclusion
with the rest of the Caribbean Islands?
Would a consideration of an Island Union
be possible as a country?”
Arwen from Puerto Rico asked
on the YouTube Live Chat:
“Have any of you been seeing the new evidence showcasing the fact that in the last 50 years it's been proven by multiple sources that the Tainos weren't actually our ancestors but the Caribes?”
Garrick from New York State asked on the
YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“Do you consider PR to be a
“Banana Republic”?”
The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by way of exploitation of labour… the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation.
Andrina from Gringolandia asked on the
YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“Please stop dividing us.
Puerto Ricans are Puerto Ricans.
Phenotypes don’t matter.
Location doesn’t matter.
Why do Sociologists
(and other social scientists)
talk about these differences?”
Myrtle from the universe asked on the YouTube Live Chat:
“Why do you not have an all
African American or Black panel
when discussing their history/issues?
But you do not for other ethnic groups?”