Puerto rico culture politics and identity

Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read puerto rico. The smallest and easternmost of the greater antilles island chain that forms the northern boundary of the caribbean sea, puerto rico was a spanish colony for 400 years. Location of puerto rico in the caribbean puerto rico culture, politics, and identity nancy morri. Public and academic debates about whether puerto rico has its own national identity have always been fraught with strong. The study involves interviews with a cross section of puerto rican society and explains the genesis behind many important symbols and cultural heritage. After gaining sovereignty over puerto rico from spain in 1898, the united states undertook a sustained this book uses historical and interview data to trace the development of puerto rican. Culture, politics, and identity is a study conducted by nancy morris which presents an interesting look at puerto rico. 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. In puerto rico, the politics of identity has been historically manifested in different ways, from intellectual debates over the cultural portrayal of the territory, to the utilization of governmental resources for the implementation of cultural policies, to the performance of identity in the political arena as political parties and movements.

Explores how local political elites have shaped puerto rican identity during almost a century of us involvement. The politics of culture in contemporary puerto rico. Culture, politics, and identity by nancy morris, 1995. The construction of cultural identities in puerto rico and the. Nearly everywhere in the political arenas of twentieth century puerto rican we find references to culture and identity in the political discourse of. This study examines the symbols of puerto rican identity, and their use in the complex politics of the island. Documenting a puerto rican identity in search of a national. Puerto rico lends itself to a study of collective identity because of the prominence of identity issues in its recent history. Traces islands political trajectory in its relations with us pt. 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.