Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration by Robert C. McGreevey

Casey, Matthew

doi:10.1215/15476715-8114878

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The Civic Creed Racialised Citizenship and Worthiness1

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“…Although they were no longer Spanish citizens, Congress denied them American citizenship. Neither US citizens nor aliens, Puerto Ricans endured nineteen years as US nationals – a no‐man's‐land status (McGreevey, 2018: 60–66). From the start, Puerto Ricans' standing within the American social and political system was shaped by notions of Anglo‐Saxon vis‐à‐vis inferior races (McGreevey, 2018: 44–46).…”

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From Porto Rico to Puerto Rico: Citizenship, Race and the Politics of Worthiness

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2022

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The English-language text of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the accord conceding Puerto Rico to the United States, misspelled the island's name as Porto Rico. The treaty's ratification entrenched the error in US law and prompted a decades-long campaign to restore the territory's original name. More than a comedy of errors, this incident exposes conflicting interpretations of US citizenship and the worthiness of different sets of citizens. Puerto Ricans discovered that the statutory citizenship they acquired was attenuated by their perceived worthiness: a status limited by their membership of the so-called Spanish race.

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From Porto Rico to Puerto Rico: Citizenship, Race and the Politics of Worthiness

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2022

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Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration by Robert C. McGreevey

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From Porto Rico to Puerto Rico: Citizenship, Race and the Politics of Worthiness

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