Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-331) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Puerto Ricans, citizenship, and recognition -- New citizens of New York: community organization and political culture in the twenties -- Confronting race in the metropole: racial ascription and racial discourse during the Depression -- Pursuing the promise of the New Deal: relief and the politics of nationalism in the thirties -- How to represent the postwar migration: the liberal establishment, the Puerto Rican Left, and the "Puerto Rican problem" -- How to study the postwar migrant: social science, Puerto Ricans, and social problems -- "Juan Q. Citizen," aspirantes, and Young Lords: youth activism in a new world -- Epilogue: from colonial citizen to Nuyorican.