2005 Volume 6 Number 1
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Item "They See Us as Black Americans": Puerto Rican Migrants and the Politics of Citizenship in Depression-era New York City(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2005-06-30) Thomas, LorrinThis talk is based on a section of the book I’m writing, Juan Q. Citizen: Puerto Rican Migrants and the Politics of Citizenship in NYC, 1917-1970. The larger project takes the abstract question of citizenship, a preoccupation of political and policy history in the last decade, and turns it into a real analytical problem for social history: What did this central category of political status mean in everyday life, especially when that status was as complex and embattled as it was for Puerto Ricans--who seemed to remain, even as migrants in the metropole, colonial citizens?