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Article: National performances: the politics of class, race, and space in Puerto Rican Chicago.(Social Anthropology)(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- September 1, 2004
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RAMOS-ZAYAS, ANA Y. National performances: the politics of class, race, and space in Puerto Rican Chicago. xiv, 289 pp., illus., bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2003. [pounds sterling]15.00 (paper)
The neighbourhoods (barrios) of Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and West Town in Chicago are home to powerful expressions of Puerto Rican nationalist sentiment. Barrio residents feel their neighbourhood, established in the 1940s, is being taken over by other Hispanics, African Americans, and whites. Other Hispanics are seen as 'illegals' or at least not US citizens, which Puerto Ricans feel themselves to be. African Americans are black, which some Puerto ...