
Centro Journal
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Vol. XXV, no. 1, Spring 2013
SPECIAL SECTION: Puerto Rico, the United States and the Making of a Bounded Citizenship
GUEST EDITOR: PEDRO CABÁN
The Puerto Rican Colonial Matrix: The Etiology of Citizenship—An Introduction
PEDRO CABÁN
Confronting a Colonial Legacy: Asserting Puerto Rican Identity by Legally Renouncing U.S. Citizenship
JACQUELINE N. FONT-GUZMÁN
Extending Citizenship to Puerto Rico: Three Traditions of Inclusive Exclusion
CHARLES R. VENATOR-SANTIAGO
The Bordering of America: Colonialism and Citizenship in the Philippines and Puerto Rico
RICK BALDOZ AND CÉSAR AYALA
Citizenship and the Alien Exclusion in the Insular Cases: Puerto Ricans in the Periphery of American Empire
EDGARDO MELÉNDEZ
From Freedom Fighters to Patriots: The Successful Campaign to Release the FALN Political Prisoners, 1980–1999
MARGARET POWER
Neoliberalism and Orientalism in Puerto Rico: Walter Mercado’s Queer Spiritual Capital
TACE HEDRICK
Melancholic Readings, Precarious Authority: The Work of Mourning in Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s Funereal Chronicles
JASON CORTÉS
Book Reviews
CENTRO: Journal of the Center of Puerto Rican Studies
Vol. XXV, no. 2 Fall 2013
ESSAYS
Julia de Burgos’ Writing for Pueblos Hispanos: Journalism as Puerto Rican Cultural and Political Transnational Practice
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
The Chicago Young Lords: (Re)constructing Knowledge and Revolution
Jacqueline Lazú
The Latinization of Orlando: Language, Whiteness, and the Politics of Place
Simone Delerme
Enduring Migration: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms
Ismael García-Colón and Edwin Meléndez
Migrants Who Never Arrived: The Crash of Westair Transport’s N1248n in 1950
Luis Asencio Camacho
Feeding the Colonial Subject: Nutrition and Public Health in Puerto Rico, 1926-1952
Elisa M. González
The Not-So-Docile Puerto Rican: Students Resist Americanization, 1930
Ellie Walshw
INTERVIEW / ENTREVISTA De claves, enfoques y heartbeats. Entrevista con Adál Maldonado
Carlos Garrido Castellano
BOOK REVIEWS
LETTERS / CARTAS
A Response to Gabriel Haslip-Viera’s Review of The Myth of Indigenous Caribbean Extinction: Continuity and Reclamation in Borikén (Puerto Rico)
Tony Castanha
A Response by Gabriel Haslip-Viera