From Porto Rico to Puerto Rico: Citizenship, Race and the Politics of Worthiness.
The English‐language text of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the accord conceding Puerto Rico to the United States, misspelled the island's name as Porto Rico. The treaty's ratification entrenched the error in US law and prompted a decades‐long campaign to restore the territory's original name. More than...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 148 - 162 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2023
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