| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives. Ed. by Carmen Teresa Whalen and Víctor Vázquez-Hernández. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. xiv, 306 pp. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 1-59213-413-0.)
This book is a collection of essays on the social history of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. All of its essays focus on Puerto Rican migration to a particular location and describe the social development of Puerto Rican enclaves. The collection contains descriptive microhistories of the immigrant Puerto Rican communities in Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The book also has an interesting piece on Puerto Ricans in Hawaii, an important and surprising addition to the text. The essays explore the political aspects of Puerto Rican identity produced by the experience of diverse immigrant constituencies such as clubs, societies, associations, and community-based political action groups.	1
In her introduction, Carmen Teresa Whalen provided an excellent social and economic history on the processes of Puerto Rican migration to the United States during the twentieth century. She highlighted the relationships between migration and Puerto Rico's colonial ties to the United States, the postwar expansion of U.S. capital, and the need for a cheap, domestic labor force.	. . .

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