Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Beyond Nationalist and Colonialist Discourses: The Jaiba Politics of the Puerto Rican Ethno-Nation......Page 12
PART ONE: Challenging Nationalism......Page 48
1 Puerto Rico: Surviving Colonialism and Nationalism......Page 50
2 The Divorce of Nationalist Discourses from the Puerto Rican People: A Sociohistorical Perspective......Page 68
3 Puerto Rico: The Myth of the National Economy......Page 88
PART TWO: ThinkingTextually......Page 104
4 The Discreet Charm of the Proletariat: Imagining Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Ricans in the Past Twenty-Five Years of Historical Inquiry......Page 106
5 Narrating the Tropical Pharmacy......Page 127
6 Deconstructing Puerto Ricanness through Sexuality: Female Counternarratives on Puerto Rican Identity (1894–1934)......Page 138
7 "So We Decided to Come and Ask You Ourselves": The 1928 U.S. Congressional Hearings on Women's Suffrage in Puerto Rico......Page 151
PART THREE: The Puerto Rican Archipelago: Contested Identities......Page 178
8 Islands at the Crossroads: Puerto Ricanness Traveling between theTranslocal Nation and the Global City......Page 180
9 Puerto Rican Identity Up in the Air: Air Migration, Its Cultural Representations, and Me "Cruzando el Charco"......Page 200
10 "Pa' La Escuelita con Mucho Cuida'o y por la Orillita": A Journey through the Contested Terrains of the Nation and Sexual Orientation......Page 220
PART FOUR: Culture Wars in Contemporary Puerto Rico......Page 240
11 Contending Nationalisms: Culture, Politics, and Corporate Sponsorship in Puerto Rico......Page 242
12 Rapping Two Versions of the Same Requiem......Page 254
13 English Only Jamás but Spanish Only Cuidado: Language and Nationalism in Contemporary Puerto Rico......Page 268
Contributors......Page 298
A......Page 302
C......Page 303
E......Page 305
H......Page 306
K......Page 307
M......Page 308
N......Page 309
P......Page 310
R......Page 311
S......Page 312
W......Page 313
Z......Page 314