Robert C. McGreevey, "Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration" (Cornell UP, 2018)
In Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration (Cornell University Press 2018), Robert C. McGreevey explores the contested meaning and limits of citizenship for Puerto Ricans from the late nineteenth century to the late 1930s. This timely monograph brings together legal, cultural, and labour history to understand the complicated ways that Puerto Ricans on the island and on the US mainland challenged racialized notions of fitness for citizenship. The narrative that results from such an approach presents US power as a dynamic, contested, and…
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