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Puerto Rican Citizen
Lorrin Thomas
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Description for Puerto Rican Citizen
Hardback. By the end of the 1920s, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and unique migrant communities. This work unravels the many tensions that defined the experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and unique migrant communities. In "Puerto Rican Citizen", Lorrin Thomas for the first time unravels the many tensions - historical, racial, political, and economic - that defined the experience of this unique group of American citizens before and after World War II. Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival sources, interviews, and ... Read more
By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and unique migrant communities. In "Puerto Rican Citizen", Lorrin Thomas for the first time unravels the many tensions - historical, racial, political, and economic - that defined the experience of this unique group of American citizens before and after World War II. Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival sources, interviews, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226796086
SKU
V9780226796086
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About Lorrin Thomas
Lorrin Thomas is assistant professor of history at Rutgers - Camden University.
Reviews for Puerto Rican Citizen
"Written with simple elegance and brilliantly engaged with the politics of dignity and recognition, Puerto Rican Citizen is a powerful work of original scholarship that should attract a broad readership among academic and general audiences alike." - David Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego.