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Puerto Rican Nation on the Move

Puerto Rican Nation on the Move

Duany, Jorge

Paperback

Caribbean HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 0807853720
ISBN13: 9780807853726
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Sep 9 2002
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.36
Language: English

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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