Journal article
'It's in my blood, in my food and in my soul': current understandings of Puerto Ricanness within the Puerto Rican nation
National identities, Vol.26(1), pp.25-45
01/01/2024
DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2023.2270448
Abstract
Although the United Nations no longer classifies Puerto Rico as a colony, Puerto Rico poses theoretical and empirical challenges to inquiries about national identity within (post-)colonial situations. Gazing through a sociohistorical lens, the present study explores how beliefs about legitimate membership criteria relate to self-identified Puerto Ricans' understanding of their and in-group others' national identity. By contextualizing current perceptions of national identity as linked to an emergent Puerto Rican nationalism throughout the nineteenth- and twentieth-century, this paper relates individual-level conceptions of membership criteria to institutional and discursive interventions, thereby contributing to studies of national identity in colonially (un)settled times.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- 'It's in my blood, in my food and in my soul': current understandings of Puerto Ricanness within the Puerto Rican nation
- Creators
- Jorge E. Ramos - Georgetown University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- National identities, Vol.26(1), pp.25-45
- DOI
- 10.1080/14608944.2023.2270448
- ISSN
- 1460-8944
- eISSN
- 1469-9907
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 21
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2024
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9984962626702771
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