Mónica A. Jiménez’s Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico, offers a legal history of Puerto Rico’s colonial relation with the United States (US). The book further attempts to connect Puerto Rico’s colonial status with a history of racist Supreme Court decisions beginning with Johnson v. M’Intosh and ending with US v. Vaello Madero. Although the book offers a comprehensive summary of the Insular Cases, its strongest argument comes in its last chapter when Jiménez discusses the cases that lead up to the eventual passage of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act Read more