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The Puerto Rican nation on the move : identities on the island & in the United States / Jorge Duany.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duany, Jorge.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.
- Nationalism.
- Identity (Psychology)--Puerto Rico.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Puerto Ricans--United States--Ethnic identity.
- Puerto Ricans.
- Ethnicity--Puerto Rico.
- Ethnicity.
- Puerto Rico--Civilization--20th century.
- Puerto Rico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author uses previously untapped primary resources to bring insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism and migration. Duany argues that the Puerto Rican nation must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rethinking Colonialism, Nationalism, and Transnationalism The Case of Puerto Rico; 1. The Construction of Cultural Identities in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora; 2. The Rich Gate to Future Wealth: Displaying Puerto Rico at World's Fairs; 3. Representing the Newly Colonized: Puerto Rico in the Gaze of American Anthropologists, 1898–1915; 4. Portraying the Other: Puerto Rican Images in Two American Photographic Collections; 5. A Postcolonial Colony?: The Rise of Cultural Nationalism in Puerto Rico during the 1950's
- 6. Collecting the Nation: The Public Representation of Puerto Rico's Cultural Identity 7. Following Migrant Citizens: The Official Discourse on Puerto Rican Migration to the United States; 8. The Nation in the Diaspora: The Reconstruction of the Cultural Identity of Puerto Rican Migrants; 9. Mobile Livelihoods: Circular Migration, Transnational Identities, and Cultural Borders between Puerto Rico and the United States; 10. Neither White nor Black:
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890876744
- 9780807861479
- 0807861472
- OCLC:
- 476236554
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