Puerto Rican citizen : history and political identity in twentieth-century New York City / Lorrin Thomas.

By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them legally Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and unique migrant communities. In thi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Lorrin.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Series:Historical studies of urban America.
Subjects:
LEADER 03892cam a2200457 a 4500
001 b1702964
003 CaEvIII
008 090827s2010 ilum b a001 0 eng c
005 20240202213017.6
010 |a  2009035824 
015 |a GBB036660  |2 bnb 
016 7 |a 015504967  |2 Uk 
020 |a 9780226796086  |q (cloth ;  |q alk. paper) 
020 |a 0226796086  |q (cloth ;  |q alk. paper) 
035 |a (OCoLC)435711365 
040 |a ICU/DLC  |b eng  |c DLC  |d YDXCP  |d UKM  |d C#P  |d CDX  |d BWX  |d NSB  |d UKMGB  |d MIX  |d BDX  |d OCLCF  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCA  |d OCLCQ  |d LRP  |d UEJ  |d OCLCQ  |d CSJ  |d OCLCQ  |d UtOrBLW 
043 |a n-us-ny 
049 |a SCLL 
050 4 |a F128.9.P85 T463 2010 
100 1 |a Thomas, Lorrin.  |0 no2009135421 
245 1 0 |a Puerto Rican citizen :  |b history and political identity in twentieth-century New York City /  |c Lorrin Thomas. 
264 1 |a Chicago ;  |a London :  |b University of Chicago Press,  |c 2010. 
300 |a x, 354 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 24 cm. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
340 |p illustration  |2 rdaill 
490 1 |a Historical studies of urban America 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-331) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Puerto Ricans, citizenship, and recognition -- New citizens of New York : community organization and political culture in the twenties -- Confronting race in the metropole : racial ascription and racial discourse during the Depression -- Pursuing the promise of the New Deal : relief and the politics of nationalism in the thirties -- How to represent the postwar migration : the liberal establishment, the Puerto Rican Left, and the "Puerto Rican problem" -- How to study the postwar migrant : social science, Puerto Ricans, and social problems -- "Juan Q. Citizen," aspirantes, and Young Lords : youth activism in a new world -- Epilogue: from colonial citizen to Nuyorican. 
520 |a By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them legally Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and unique migrant communities. In this book the author unravels the many tensions, historical, racial, political, and economic, that defined the experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II. Building its narrative from a wide range of archival sources, interviews, and first-person accounts of Puerto Rican life in New York, this book illuminates the rich history of a group that is still largely invisible to many scholars. At the center are Puerto Ricans' own formulations about political identity, the responses of activists and ordinary migrants to the failed promises of American citizenship, and their expectations of how the American state should address those failures. Complicating our understanding of the discontents of modern liberalism, of race relations beyond black and white, and of the diverse conceptions of rights and identity in American life, this book transforms the way we understand this community's integral role in shaping our sense of citizenship in twentieth-century America. -- Book jacket. 
650 0 |a Puerto Ricans  |z New York (State)  |z New York  |x Social conditions.  |0 sh2010109141 
650 0 |a Puerto Ricans  |z New York (State)  |z New York  |x Economic conditions.  |0 sh2010109141 
650 0 |a Puerto Ricans  |z New York (State)  |z New York  |x Politics and government.  |0 sh2010109141 
830 0 |a Historical studies of urban America.  |0 n 95045613  
907 |a .b17029648  |b 110516  |c 180418 
913 |a - 
994 |a 92  |b SCL 
998 |a beat  |b 170818  |c m  |d a  |e -  |f eng  |g ilu  |h 0 
999 f f |i b56f1bc0-a996-11ea-8da7-1466fadbd8b9  |s 9f7fd168-325b-40ee-bb49-40ea9506e782 
852 |b Main Collection  |h F128.9.P85 T463 2010  |0 e7ba6322-a99c-11ea-b550-3a67fadbd8b9