{"product_id":"puerto-rican-nation-on-the-move-9780807853726","title":"Puerto Rican Nation on the Move","description":"Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican \"nation\" must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others--American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example--have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJorge Duany is professor of anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity\u003c\/i\u003e. He has held teaching and research appointments in the United States, most recently as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328631345426,"sku":"9780807853726","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d00b3d4e-5d9b-4539-9861-7eee89732da3.jpg?v=1727746126","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/puerto-rican-nation-on-the-move-9780807853726","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}