Series: Latinx Histories

Facing persistent exploitation, discrimination, and marginalisation in the second half of the twentieth century, generations of Puerto Rican organisers and activists drew on multiple competing versions of nationalism to challenge the racial order in Chicago, one of America’s most segregated cities. Initially, both supporters and opponents of Puerto Rican independence promoted the assimilation of fellow migrants as white citizens. The...

Facing persistent exploitation, discrimination, and marginalisation in the second half of the twentieth century, generations of Puerto Rican organisers and activists drew on multiple competing versions of nationalism to challenge the racial order in Chicago, one of America’s most segregated cities. Initially, both supporters and opponents of Puerto Rican independence promoted the assimilation of fellow migrants as white citizens. The...