By Nancy Morris
This e-book makes use of old and interview information to track the advance of Puerto Rican identification within the twentieth century. It analyzes how and why Puerto Ricans have maintained a transparent experience of specialty within the face of direct and oblique pressures on their id. After gaining sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898, the USA undertook a sustained crusade to Americanize the island. regardless of 50 years of lively Americanization and one other forty years of persevered usa sovereignty over the island, Puerto Ricans preserve a feeling of themselves as enormously and proudly Puerto Rican. This research examines the symbols of Puerto Rican identification, and their use within the complicated politics of the island. It exhibits that identification is dynamic, it's skilled in a different way by means of participants throughout Puerto Rican society, and that the most important symbols of Puerto Rican id haven't remained static through the years. in the course of the learn of Puerto Rico, the publication investigates and demanding situations the widely-heard argument that the inevitable results of the export of U.S. mass media and buyer tradition through the international is the weakening of cultural identities in receiving societies. The publication develops the concept exterior strain on collective identification could advance that identification instead of, as is usually assumed, shrink it.
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