Experiencing Puerto Rican citizenship and cultural nationalism /

Puerto Ricans experience their citizenship and cultural nationalism within the context of an unincorporated territory in which they have limited participation in the legal framework devised to govern them. Drawing from in-depth interviews with a group of Puerto Ricans who requested a certificate of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Font-Guzmán, Jacqueline N. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The subjective experience of citizenship and national identity : an introduction
  • 2. A socio-legal history of Puerto Rico: an account of repression, limited democratic participation, and partial rewards
  • 3. The power of not wanting : renouncing U.S. citizenship
  • 4. Puerto Rican citizenship and construction of counter-narratives: Ram̕rez de Ferrer v. Mari Brás 144 D.P.R. 141, 1997
  • 5. Experiencing Puertorriqueńidad through citizenship
  • 6. The performativity of Puertorriqueńidad and citizenship
  • 7. Final Comments.