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...
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.