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 experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II.
Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival...
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 the...
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 experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II.
Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival...
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 the...
