Porto-Riquenhos: identidade e cidadania impingidas e imbricadas: Do bregar como sobrevivência em Acadio Diaz-Quiñones

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to analyze a little it of being Puerto Rican is. Porto Ricans are US citizens, but at the same time they are seen as immigrants. In the first part, we survey the history of the annexation of Puerto Rico, how an annexed territory could become a state and why this has been denied to Puerto Rico, mainly in how this was seen by contemporary and modern politicians and jurists. In the second part, we seek to understand what a nation is, how the historical narrative of this nation happens and how the Puerto Rican minority deals with the barriers put against them. Thus, we look in the essays of Acadio Díaz-Quiñones for an essentially Puerto Rican word, bregar, and we seek understand what it tells us in its meanings and its practices. This analysis seeks the colonial effects on being Puerto Rican and a little on what Puerto Ricans do about it.