Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New Yo

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By the end of the 1920s, 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. This work unravels the many tensions that defined the experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II.

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By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged 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 distinctive migrant communities. In Puerto Rican Citizen, Lorrin Thomas for the first time 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 incisive 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 of Puerto Rican Citizen 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, Thomas's book transforms the way we understand this community's integral role in shaping our sense of citizenship in twentieth-century America.

Author Biography

Lorrin Thomas is assistant professor of history at Rutgers - Camden University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Puerto Ricans, Citizenship, and Recognition One New Citizens of New York Community Organization and Political Culture in the Twenties Two Confronting Race in the Metropole Racial Ascription and Racial Discourse during the Depression Three Pursuing the Promise of the New Deal Relief and the Politics of Nationalism in the Thirties Four How to Represent the Postwar Migration The Liberal Establishment, the Puerto Rican Left, and the "Puerto Rican Problem" Five How to Study the Postwar Migrant Social Science, Puerto Ricans, and Social Problems Six "Juan Q. Citizen," Aspirantes, and Young Lords Youth Activism in a New World Epilogue From Colonial Citizen to Nuyorican Notes Index

Review

"Written with simple elegance and brilliantly engaged with the politics of dignity and recognition, Puerto Rican Citizen is a powerful work of original scholarship that should attract a broad readership among academic and general audiences alike." - David Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego.

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"Written with simple elegance and brilliantly engaged with the politics of dignity and recognition, Puerto Rican Citizen represents an important achievement-one that I am convinced will assume its rightful place among the best examples of scholarship on Puerto Rican history, Latino studies, and the broader history of citizenship. Engaging the history of the Puerto Rican diaspora, as well as the literature of race, imperialism, and national citizenship, Thomas lays the groundwork for a much-needed reconsideration of the significance of Puerto Ricans in the social history of the United States. Puerto Rican Citizen is a powerful work of original scholarship that should attract a broad audience among academic and general audiences alike."-David Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego

Details ISBN0226796086 Author Lorrin Thomas Short Title PUERTO RICAN CITIZEN Language English ISBN-10 0226796086 ISBN-13 9780226796086 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Year 2010 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2010-06-15 Publication Date 2010-06-15 AU Release Date 2010-06-15 NZ Release Date 2010-06-15 US Release Date 2010-06-15 Pages 352 Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 974.71004687295 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Series Historical Studies of Urban America Subtitle History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City We've got this

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