Margaret Power publishes new article in Centro Journal

Professor of History Margaret Power has published a new article, "Puerto Rican Nationalism in Chicago," in the Fall 2016 issue of Centro Journal.

This article explores Puerto Rican nationalism in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago. It analyzes how, why, and by what means activists, born and raised in the diaspora and working with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, define themselves as members of the Puerto Rican nation. These activists’ identity embraces their reality in Chicago and reinforce their familial, socio-economic, cultural, historical, and political ties to the island. Their experiences, identities, choices, and realities expand and update the possibilities and conception of Puerto Rican nationalism in the twenty-first century. They define the Puerto Rican nation as territorially based on the island and including the now majority Puerto Rican population living in the diaspora.