The year 1998 represents the hundredth anniversary of the U.S.
invasion of Puerto Rico. Since that time, the "Puerto Rican
archipelago" has come to extend from the island itself, up the
Eastern seaboard, and as far west as California and Hawai'i. Puerto
Rican Jam considers the issues unique to Puerto Rican culture and
politics, issues often encapsulated in concerns about ethnicity,
race, gender, and language. Discussions of Puerto Rican cultural
politics usually fall into one of two categories, nationalist or
colonialist. Puerto Rican Jam moves beyond this narrow dichotomy,
elaborating alternatives to dominant postcolonial theories, and
includes essays written from the perspectives of groups that are
not usually represented, such as gays and lesbians, youth, blacks,
and women. The essays propose different ways of conceptualizing the
U.S.-Puerto Rican colonial relationship, thus opening new spaces
for political, social, economic, and cultural agency for Puerto
Ricans on both the island and the continent. Among the topics
discussed are the limitations of nationalism as a transformative
and democratizing political discourse, the contradictory impact of
American colonialism, language politics, and the 1928 U.S.
congressional hearings on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico. A
groundbreaking contribution to the study of colonialism, Puerto
Rican Jam represents an important engagement with issues raised by
American expansionism in the Caribbean. Contributors: Jaime E.
Benson-Arias, U of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Arlene Davila, Syracuse
U; Chloe S. Georas, SUNY, Binghamton; Manuel Guzman, CUNY Graduate
Center; Gladys M. Jimenez-Munoz, SUNY, Oneonta; Agustin Lao, SUNY,
Binghamton; Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, U of Puerto Rico; Mariano
Negron-Portillo, U of Puerto Rico; Jose Quiroga, George Washington
U; Raquel Z. Rivera, CUNY Graduate Center; Alberto Sandoval
Sanchez, Mount Holyoke College; Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles, SUNY,
Binghamton. Frances Negron-Muntaner is a doctoral candidate in
comparative literature at Rutgers University, as well as a poet and
filmmaker. Ramon Grosfoguel is assistant professor of sociology at
the State University of New York, Binghamton.
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