Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond Nationalist and Colonialist Discourses: The Jaiba Politics of the Puerto Rican Ethno-Nation -- PART ONE: Challenging Nationalism -- 1 Puerto Rico: Surviving Colonialism and Nationalism -- 2 The Divorce of Nationalist Discourses from the Puerto Rican People: A Sociohistorical Perspective -- 3 Puerto Rico: The Myth of the National Economy -- PART TWO: ThinkingTextually -- 4 The Discreet Charm of the Proletariat: Imagining Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Ricans in the Past Twenty-Five Years of Historical Inquiry -- 5 Narrating the Tropical Pharmacy -- 6 Deconstructing Puerto Ricanness through Sexuality: Female Counternarratives on Puerto Rican Identity (1894-1934) -- 7 "So We Decided to Come and Ask You Ourselves": The 1928 U.S. Congressional Hearings on Women's Suffrage in Puerto Rico -- PART THREE: The Puerto Rican Archipelago: Contested Identities -- 8 Islands at the Crossroads: Puerto Ricanness Traveling between theTranslocal Nation and the Global City -- 9 Puerto Rican Identity Up in the Air: Air Migration, Its Cultural Representations, and Me "Cruzando el Charco" -- 10 "Pa' La Escuelita con Mucho Cuida'o y por la Orillita": A Journey through the Contested Terrains of the Nation and Sexual Orientation -- PART FOUR: Culture Wars in Contemporary Puerto Rico -- 11 Contending Nationalisms: Culture, Politics, and Corporate Sponsorship in Puerto Rico -- 12 Rapping Two Versions of the Same Requiem -- 13 English Only Jamás but Spanish Only Cuidado: Language and Nationalism in Contemporary Puerto Rico -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.