Examines the creation of an essentialist view of nationhood based on a peasant culture and a unifying Hispanic heritage, and the ways in which grassroots organizations challenge and reconfigure definitions of national identity through their own activities and representations.
Examines the creation of an essentialist view of nationhood based on a peasant culture and a unifying Hispanic heritage, and the ways in which grassro...
Little attention has been paid to the Latino movements of 1960's and 1970's in the literature of social movements. This book looks at the organizations of the Puerto Rican movement, which emerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a response to US colonialism on the island and to the poverty and discrimination faced by Puerto Ricans on the mainland.
Little attention has been paid to the Latino movements of 1960's and 1970's in the literature of social movements. This book looks at the organization...
Growing numbers of working-class Puerto Ricans are migrating from larger mainland metropolitan areas into smaller, safer communities in search of a better quality of life for themselves and their families. What they may also encounter in moving to such communities is a discourse of exclusion that associates their differences and their lower socioeconomic class with a lack of effort and an unwillingness to assimilate into mainstream culture. In this ethnographic study of a community in conflict, educator and anthropologist Ellen Bigler examines such discourses as she explores one city's heated...
Growing numbers of working-class Puerto Ricans are migrating from larger mainland metropolitan areas into smaller, safer communities in search of a be...
Bigler examines one city's heated dispute that arose over bringing multiculturalism and bilingual education into their lives and their schools' curricula, illuminating the nature of racial politics in the United States and how both sides in the debate over multicultural education struggle to find common language. In the PUERTO RICAN STUDIES series.
Bigler examines one city's heated dispute that arose over bringing multiculturalism and bilingual education into their lives and their schools' curric...
This work attempts to cast new light on the Generacion del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, it focuses on the interlocking themes of nationalism, gender, class and race.
This work attempts to cast new light on the Generacion del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cult...
This work attempts to cast new light on the Generacion del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, it focuses on the interlocking themes of nationalism, gender, class and race.
This work attempts to cast new light on the Generacion del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cult...
