Within a current moment characterized by widespread diaspora and debate about national identities, the American commonwealth of Puerto Rico stands at an economically perilous, politically liminal classificatory intersection as both American and a "cultural other." This article presents an on-the-ground, collection-oriented intervention for documenting and interpreting the origins of the island's complex colonial relationship with the United
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