CENTRO: Journal vol. XXIX no. 1 Spring 2017
U.S. Citizenship in Puerto Rico: One Hundred Years After the Jones Act
Guest Editors: Charles R. Venator-Santiago and Edgardo Meléndez
Table of Contents
Preface—Edwin Meléndez
INTRODUCCIÓN / INTRODUCTION
U.S. Citizenship in Puerto Rico: One Hundred Years After the Jones Act
Charles R. Venator-Santiago and Edgardo Meléndez
Mapping the Contours of the History of the Extension of U.S. Citizenship to Puerto Rico, 1898–Present
Charles R. Venator-Santiago
The Unresolved Constitutional Issues of Puerto Rican Citizenship
Rogers M. Smith
Citizenship and Equality in an Age of Diversity: Reflections on Balzac and the Indian Civil Rights Act
Sanford Levinson
To Be or Not to Be: Puerto Ricans and Their Illusory U.S. Citizenship
Juan R. Torruella
Citizenship in U.S. Territories: Constitutional Right or Congressional Privilege?
Neil Weare
Dual Consciousness About Law And Justice: Puerto Ricans’ Battle For U.S. Citizenship In Hawai‘i
Susan K. Serrano
“…Acting Like an American Citizen”: Discursive and Political Resistance to Puerto Rican U.S. Citizenship Anomalies in the 1930s
Daniel Acosta Elkan
A Note on the Puerto Rican De-Naturalization Exception of 1948
Charles R. Venator-Santiago
Puerto Ricans as Contingent Citizens: Shifting Mandated Identities and Imperial Disjunctures
Pedro Cabán
Puerto Ricans and U.S. Citizenship in 1917: Imperatives of Security
Bartholomew Sparrow and Jennifer Lamm
Comments on the Jones Act and the Grant of U.S. Citizenship to Puerto Ricans
Edgardo Meléndez
CENTRO Journal vol. XXIX, no. 2, Summer 2017
Table of Contents
Sunshine Politics: Puerto Rican Memory and the Political in New Destinations
Patricia Silver
Puerto Rican Language Use on Facebook
Kevin S. Carroll and Vanessa Z. Mari
Jesús y Concha Colón: A Puerto Rican Story of Love, Tradition, Migration and Modernity in Early 20th Century New York
Melissa Coss Aquino
From the Archives: On Two ‘Lost’ Poems by Julia de Burgos
Cristina Pérez Jiménez
Gender, Homosexuality, the Diasporic Experience, and Other Key Themes in Víctor Fragoso’s Theater
Consuelo Martínez-Reyes
“We Like Mexican Laborers Better”: Citizenship and Immigration Policies in the Formation of Puerto Rican Farm Labor in the United States
Ismael García-Colón
“My Eyes Opened to a Healthier Life”: An Exploration of Health Choices Made by Puerto Rican Mothers Living in Pennsylvania
Cynthia D. Knittle and Susan A. Orshan
CENTRO Journal vol. XXIX, no. 3, Fall 2017
Special Section: Grounding Puerto Ricans in Place
Guest Edited by William Vélez
Table of Contents
Grounding Puerto Ricans in Place:
Introduction by William Vélez
Gendered Fault Lines: A Demographic Profile of Puerto Rican Women in the United States
by Maura Toro-Morn and Ivis García
Contextualizing the Relationship between Culture and Puerto Rican Health: Towards a Place-Based Framework of Minority Health Disparities
by Giovani Burgos, Fernando I. Rivera, and Marc A. Garcia
Reflections on Cultural Capital and Orlando’s Puerto Rican and Latino “Elite”
by Simone Pierre Delerme
“Let Me Go Check Out Florida”: Rethinking Puerto Rican Diaspora
by Patricia Silver and William Vélez
A New Framework for Understanding Puerto Ricans’ Migration Patterns and Incorporation
by William Vélez
Racismo en Puerto Rico: Surveying Perceptions of Racism
by Hilda Lloréns, Carlos G. García-Quijano and Isar P. Godreau
La conciencia del endorracismo y el cuerpo social en Negro: este color que me queda bonito de Benito Massó
by Ana Zapata-Calle
INTERVIEW / ENTREVISTA
Rescuing Forgotten Voices: An Interview with Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim
by Katherine T. Mccaffrey
