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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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"Responding to the fact that the experiences of Puerto Rican soldiers have been almost entirely absent from mainstream media for decades, Manuel Avilés-Santiago's groundbreaking study explores how they self-represent themselves and their role in the War on Terror via social media. This much-needed investigation is thoroughly engaging, important, and enlightening." - Charles Ramírez Berg, Joe M. Dealey, Sr. Professor, Media Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
"Manuel Avilés-Santiago's research has evolved from his keen observations as a youngster of the robust military contributions of his own family, to discovering a curious absence of a Puerto Rican presence in dominant representations of U.S. wars, to finally finding the Puerto Rican serviceman self-representations on social media networks, with particular attention to their racial and colonial subjectivity. Avilés-Santiago succeeds in carefully deconstructing and analyzing the self-created representations, and comparing them with what (few) representations have been made by the dominant media. Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship provides a window into the s the younger generations' self-expression - and opens up major areas still ripe for further study. This work is an insightful and carefully constructed project, a culmination of a lifetime of observations and probing - begun when he was a mere child." - Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Director, Voces Oral History Project, University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship
Book Subtitle: Representations in Media
Authors: Manuel G. Avilés-Santiago
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137452870
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45718-9Published: 26 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49859-8Published: 26 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45287-0Published: 26 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 223
Topics: Media Studies, Latin American Culture, Cultural History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, general, Sociology, general