Centro Journal 25, no. 1 (Spring 2013)

IN THIS ISSUE

SPECIAL SECTION: Puerto Rico, the United States and the Making of a Bounded Citizenship
GUEST EDITOR: PEDRO CABÁN

The Puerto Rican Colonial Matrix: The Etiology of Citizenship—An Introduction
PEDRO CABÁN

Confronting a Colonial Legacy: Asserting Puerto Rican Identity by Legally Renouncing U.S. Citizenship
JACQUELINE N. FONT-GUZMÁN

Extending Citizenship to Puerto Rico: Three Traditions of Inclusive Exclusion
CHARLES R. VENATOR-SANTIAGO

The Bordering of America: Colonialism and Citizenship in the Philippines and Puerto Rico
RICK BALDOZ AND CÉSAR AYALA

Citizenship and the Alien Exclusion in the Insular Cases: Puerto Ricans in the Periphery of American Empire
EDGARDO MELÉNDEZ

From Freedom Fighters to Patriots: The Successful Campaign to Release the FALN Political Prisoners, 1980–1999
MARGARET POWER

Neoliberalism and Orientalism in Puerto Rico: Walter Mercado’s Queer Spiritual Capital
TACE HEDRICK

Melancholic Readings, Precarious Authority: The Work of Mourning in Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s Funereal Chronicles
JASON CORTÉS

Book Reviews