The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move by Jorge Duany, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places-the island of Puerto Rico and the U. S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U. S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U. S. commonwealth since 1952.Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican "nation" must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others-American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example-have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts. | The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move by Jorge Duany, Paperback | Indigo Chapters