Abstract

COLON ZAYAS, Eliseo R.. Communication studies from Caribbean thought. Contributions of Luis Ramiro Beltrán, Frantz Fanon and Stuart Hall on development and cultural identity. Comun. soc [online]. 2023, vol.20, e8628.  Epub Mar 11, 2024. ISSN 0188-252X.  https://doi.org/10.32870/cys.v2023.8628.

The essay addresses Luis Ramiro Beltrán, Frantz Fanon, and Stuart Hall’s contribution to social communication studies from a Caribbean setting. The scenario that Beltrán found in Puerto Rico and the theoretical contributions of Fanon and Hall in their reflection on the colonization and decolonization processes were examined. Methodologically, we worked from a contextualization of the period in which Luis Ramiro Beltrán lived in Puerto Rico and Hall’s reading of Fanon’s work in his analysis and theorization of the Caribbean colonial/decolonial issue.

Keywords : Luis Ramiro Beltran; Frantz Fanon; Stuart Hall; Caribbean; decolonialism; colonialism; cultural identity.