num_pages: 320
description: Examines the creation of an essentialist view of nationhood based on a peasant culture and a unifying Hispanic heritage, and the ways in which grassroots organizations challenge and reconfigure definitions of national identity through their own activities and representations.
language: English
title: Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico
titlecomplete: Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico (Puerto Rican Studies)
ratings_count: 13
series: Puerto Rican Studies
publisher: Temple University Press