Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family : Framing Nation, Race, and Gender During the American Century 9780739189191, 9781498504218

In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, Hilda Lloréns off

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Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family : Framing Nation, Race, and Gender During the American Century
9780739189191, 9781498504218

Using a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Pue

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Looking to get in touch with your culinary heritage? Want to learn the big, bold flavors of Puerto Rico? Easy and Authen

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The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in th

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Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of

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During the 1950s, US Army medical officers reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress exhibited a theatrical form

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Through critical readings of fiction by celebrated Puerto Rican writers and by little-known intellectual women and worke

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In this provocative new book, Maria Acosta Cruz investigates why the rhetoric of independence is so pivotal to Puerto Ri

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Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetor

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Today, roughly 70 percent of all visas for legal immigration are reserved for family members of permanent residents or A

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