She is also a radical ideologue. Her “academic” publication is a book called Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, which describes the contemporary Puerto Rican family as “an axis of colonialism.” Puerto Rico is of course a commonwealth of the United States whose citizens enjoy the rights of Americans under the U.S. Constitution and whose status was ratified in a popular referendum in the 1990s in which 96% of Puerto Ricans voted to affiliate with the United States as a commonwealth or as a state. In other words, Professor Briggs’ extreme views are shared by approximately 4% of the Puerto Ricans themselves. Course Description