The Puerto Rican nation on the move : identities on the island & in the United States /
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Ric...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2002
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Rethinking colonialism, nationalism, and transnationalism: the case of Puerto Rico
- The construction of cultural identities in Puerto Rico and the diaspora
- The rich gate to future wealth: displaying Puerto Rico at world's fairs
- Representing the newly colonized Puerto Rico in the gaze of American anthropologists, 1898-1915
- Portraying the other: Puerto Rican images in two American photographic collections
- A postcolonial colony? The rise of cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico during the 1950s
- Collecting the nation: the public representation of Puerto Rico's cultural identity
- Following the migrant citizen: the official discourse on Puerto Rican migration to the United States
- The nation in the diaspora: the reconstruction of the cultural identity of Puerto Rican migrants
- Mobile livelihoods: circular migration, transnational identities and cultural borders between Puerto Rico and the United States
- Neither Black nor White: the representation of racial identity among Puerto Ricans on the island and in the U.S. mainland
- Making Indians out of Blacks: the revitalization of Taino identity in Contemporary Puerto Rico
- Conclusion: Nation, migration, identity.
