Centro Journal 29, no. 1 (Spring 2017)

IN THIS ISSUE

U.S. Citizenship in Puerto Rico: One Hundred Years After the Jones Act
Guest Editors: Charles R. Venator-Santiago and Edgardo Meléndez

Table of Contents

Preface—Edwin Meléndez

INTRODUCCIÓN / INTRODUCTION

U.S. Citizenship in Puerto Rico: One Hundred Years After the Jones Act
Charles R. Venator-Santiago and Edgardo Meléndez

Mapping the Contours of the History of the Extension of U.S. Citizenship to Puerto Rico, 1898–Present
Charles R. Venator-Santiago

The Unresolved Constitutional Issues of Puerto Rican Citizenship
Rogers M. Smith

Citizenship and Equality in an Age of Diversity: Reflections on Balzac and the Indian Civil Rights Act
Sanford Levinson

To Be or Not to Be: Puerto Ricans and Their Illusory U.S. Citizenship
Juan R. Torruella

Citizenship in U.S. Territories: Constitutional Right or Congressional Privilege?
Neil Weare

Dual Consciousness About Law And Justice: Puerto Ricans’ Battle For U.S. Citizenship In Hawai‘i
Susan K. Serrano

“…Acting Like an American Citizen”: Discursive and Political Resistance to Puerto Rican U.S. Citizenship Anomalies in the 1930s
Daniel Acosta Elkan

A Note on the Puerto Rican De-Naturalization Exception of 1948
Charles R. Venator-Santiago

Puerto Ricans as Contingent Citizens: Shifting Mandated Identities and Imperial Disjunctures
Pedro Cabán

Puerto Ricans and U.S. Citizenship in 1917: Imperatives of Security
Bartholomew Sparrow and Jennifer Lamm

Comments on the Jones Act and the Grant of U.S. Citizenship to Puerto Ricans
Edgardo Meléndez