
The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move
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Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places — the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952. Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican “nation” must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others — American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example — have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts.
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Jorge Duany is professor of anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras and coauthor of Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity. He has held teaching and research appointments in the United States, most recently as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rethinking Colonialism, Nationalism, and Transnationalism The Case of Puerto Rico
- Notes
- 1. The Construction of Cultural Identities in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora
- Notes
- 2. The Rich Gate to Future Wealth: Displaying Puerto Rico at World's Fairs
- Notes
- 3. Representing the Newly Colonized: Puerto Rico in the Gaze of American Anthropologists, 1898-1915
- Notes
- 4. Portraying the Other: Puerto Rican Images in Two American Photographic Collections
- Notes
- 5. A Postcolonial Colony?: The Rise of Cultural Nationalism in Puerto Rico during the 1950s
- Notes
- 6. Collecting the Nation: The Public Representation of Puerto Rico's Cultural Identity
- Notes
- 7. Following Migrant Citizens: The Official Discourse on Puerto Rican Migration to the United States
- Notes
- 8. The Nation in the Diaspora: The Reconstruction of the Cultural Identity of Puerto Rican Migrants
- Notes
- 9. Mobile Livelihoods: Circular Migration, Transnational Identities, and Cultural Borders between Puerto Rico and the United States
- Notes
- 10. Neither White nor Black: The Representation of Racial Identity among Puerto Ricans on the Island and in the U.S. Mainland
- Notes
- 11. Making Indians out of Blacks: The Revitalization of Taíno Identity in Contemporary Puerto Rico
- Notes
- Conclusion: Nation, Migration, Identity
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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