Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City

by Lorrin Thomas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022615176X
• ISBN13: 9780226151762
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"