Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism
edited by Frances Negron-Muntaner
University of Minnesota Press, 1997
Paper: 978-0-8166-2849-0
Library of Congress Classification F1976.P585 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 972.9505
TOC
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Beyond Nationalist and Colonialist Discourses: The Jaiba Politics of the Puerto Rican Ethno-Nation
- Grosfoguel, Ramón
- Negrón-Muntaner, Frances
- Georas, Chloé S.
- PART ONE
- Challenging Nationalism
- 1.
- Puerto Rico: Surviving Colonialism and Nationalism
- Negrón-Portillo, Mariano
- 2.
- The Divorce of Nationalist Discourses from the Puerto Rican People: A Sociohistorical Perspective
- Grosfoguel, Ramón
- 3.
- Puerto Rico: The Myth of the National Economy
- Benson-Arias, Jaime E.
- PART TWO
- Thinking Textually
- 4.
- The Discreet Charm of the Proletariat: Imagining Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Ricans in the Past Twenty-Five Years of Historical Inquiry
- Santiago-Valles, Kelvin A.
- 5.
- Narrating the Tropical Pharmacy
- Quiroga, José
- 6.
- Deconstructing Puerto Ricanness through Sexuality: Female Counternarratives on Puerto Rican Identity (1894–1934)
- Miguel, Yolanda Martínez-San
- 7.
- “So We Decided to Come and Ask You Ourselves”: The 1928 U.S. Congressional Hearings on Women's Suffrage in Puerto Rico
- Jiménez-Muñoz, Gladys M.
- PART THREE
- The Puerto Rican Archipelago: Contested Identities
- 8.
- Islands at the Crossroads: Puerto Ricanness Traveling between the Translocal Nation and the Global City
- Lao, Agustín
- 9.
- Puerto Rican Identity Up in the Air: Air Migration, Its Cultural Representations, and Me “Cruzando el Charco”
- S´nchez, Alberto Sandoval
- 10.
- “Pa' La Escuelita con Mucho Cuida'o y por la Orillita”: A Journey through the Contested Terrains of the Nation and Sexual Orientation
- Guzm´n, Manuel
- PART FOUR
- Culture Wars in Contemporary Puerto Rico
- 11.
- Contending Nationalisms: Culture, Politics, and Corporate Sponsorship in Puerto Rico
- D´vila, Arlene
- 12.
- Rapping Two Versions of the Same Requiem
- Rivera, Raquel Z.
- 13.
- English Only Jam´s but Spanish Only Cuidado: Language and Nationalism in Contemporary Puerto Rico
- Negrón-Muntaner, Frances
- Contributors
- Index
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