Puerto Rican citizen
Subtitle: history and political identity in twentieth-century New York City
By: Lorrin Thomas.
Series: Historical studies of urban America; Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226796086
Subjects: Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions; Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Economic conditions; Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Political activity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Puerto Ricans, citizenship, and recognition; title: New citizens of New York : community organization and political culture in the twenties; title: Confronting race in the metropole : racial ascription and racial discourse during the Depression; title: Pursuing the promise of the New Deal : relief and the politics of nationalism in the thirties; title: How to represent the postwar migration : the liberal establishment, the Puerto Rican Left, and the "Puerto Rican problem"; title: How to study the postwar migrant : social science, Puerto Ricans, and social problems; title: "Juan Q. Citizen," aspirantes, and Young Lords : youth activism in a new world; title: Epilogue: from colonial citizen to Nuyorican.