Puerto Rican citizen : history and political identity in twentieth-century New York City /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thomas, Lorrin
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Series:	Historical studies of urban America.
Subjects:	Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions. Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York > Economic conditions. Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Puerto Ricans, citizenship, and recognition
New citizens of New York : community organization and political culture in the twenties
Confronting race in the metropole : racial ascription and racial discourse during the Depression
Pursuing the promise of the New Deal : relief and the politics of nationalism in the thirties
How to represent the postwar migration : the liberal establishment, the Puerto Rican Left, and the "Puerto Rican problem"
How to study the postwar migrant : social science, Puerto Ricans, and social problems
"Juan Q. Citizen," aspirantes, and Young Lords : youth activism in a new world
Epilogue: from colonial citizen to Nuyorican.