9780807853726-0807853720-The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States

The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States

ISBN-13: 9780807853726
ISBN-10: 0807853720
Edition: 1
Author: Jorge Duany
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 448 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780807853726
ISBN-10: 0807853720
Edition: 1
Author: Jorge Duany
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 448 pages

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The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States (ISBN-13: 9780807853726 and ISBN-10: 0807853720), written by authors Jorge Duany, was published by The University of North Carolina Press in 2002. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Caribbean & West Indies (Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Caribbean & West Indies books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.5.

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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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