Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City

by Lorrin Thomas

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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 distinctive migrant communities. In Puerto Rican Citizen, Lorrin Thomas for the first time unravels the many tensions--historical, racial, political, and economic--that defined the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022615176X

ISBN13:9780226151762

Release Date:March 2014

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Hispanic American Studies History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Urban

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