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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455925803321

Autore

Duany Jorge

Titolo

The Puerto Rican nation on the move [[electronic resource] ] : identities on the island & in the United States / / Jorge Duany

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8078-6147-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Disciplina

972.9505

Soggetti

Nationalism - Puerto Rico - History - 20th century

Identity (Psychology) - Puerto Rico

Puerto Ricans - United States - Ethnic identity

Ethnicity - Puerto Rico

Electronic books.

Puerto Rico Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-329) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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:

Sommario/riassunto

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.