Nancy Morris

Puerto Rico (eBook, PDF)

Culture, Politics, and Identity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses historical and interview data to trace the development of Puerto Rican identity in the 20th century. It analyzes how and why Puerto Ricans have maintained a clear sense of distinctiveness in the face of direct and indirect pressures on their identity. After gaining sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898, the United States undertook a sustained campaign to Americanize the island. Despite 50 years of active Americanization and another 40 years of continued United States sovereignty over the island, Puerto Ricans retain a sense of themselves as distinctly and proudly Puerto Rican. This study examines the symbols of Puerto Rican identity, and their use in the complex politics of the island. It shows that identity is dynamic, it is experienced differently by individuals across Puerto Rican society, and that the key symbols of Puerto Rican identity have not remained static over time. Through the study of Puerto Rico, the book investigates and challenges the widely-heard argument that the inevitable result of the export of U.S. mass media and consumer culture throughout the world is the weakening of cultural identities in receiving societies. The book develops the idea that external pressure on collective identity may strengthen that identity rather than, as is often assumed, diminish it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313389283
• Artikelnr.: 37842533

Autorenporträt

NANCY MORRIS is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps, Tables, and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1 National
Identity and Puerto Rico Collective Identity in the Modern World The
Definitional Maze Puerto Rico PART I: IDENTITY IN PUERTO RICAN HISTORY 2
The Americanization Campaign, 1898-1948 Puerto Rico as a Colony of Spain
U.S. Military Occupation, October 1898-May 1900 Civilian Government U.S.
Citizenship Expressions of Unrest Internal Self-Government 3 Commonwealth
Status, 1949-1993 Puerto Rican Constitution Language Issues Resurface
Status Plebiscite, 1967 Agitation against the Status Quo Plebiscite
Proposal, Referendum, Plebiscite, 1989-1993 PART II: IDENTITY IN
CONTEMPORARY PUERTO RICO 4 Symbols of Identity: What Is Puerto Rico? Pride
in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico as a Nation Puerto Ricanness Sense of Belonging
The Perception of Uniqueness 5 Self-Identity: What Am I? Puerto Rican North
American Caribbean Latin American Hispanic Regional Identification
Nuyoricans PART III: IDENTITY UNDER CHALLENGE 6 The Challenge to Puerto
Rican Identity Consensus: Existence of U.S. Influence Discord: Value of
U.S. Influence Partisan Interpretations: Perceived Threat of Assimilation
Coexistence with Cultural Imports Competition from Cultural Imports The
Fear of Displacement The Vitality of Identity under Challenge 7 The
Resilience of Identity The Message of Uniqueness Symbols of Identity The
Fear of Symbolic Displacement Us versus Them: Collective Self-Awareness
Culture, Politics, and Identity Appendix: Field Research Notes Bibliography
Index