Eileen J. Findlay's research while affiliated with American University Washington D.C. and other places
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Publications (3)
This essay analyzes the workings of race and ethnicity in the life stories of fifteen New York-born Puerto Ricans who have lived in the San Juan metropolitan area for several decades. I argue that discussions of race and ethnicity played an important symbolic and structural role in these memory accounts. The narrators used such conversations to dis...
:This article notes the tension between the compelling specificity of the individual narratives which historians often use as evidence in their craft and the conviction that broad generalities constitute "legitimate" historical interpretations. Historians can profit by analyzing more closely the "artisanal" qualities of life-history narrations—th...
This article examines the life histories of women return migrants to Puerto Rico. It emphasizes the cultural aspects of return migration, especially how the narrators understood and expressed their collective identity as distinctive from Puerto Ricans born and raised on the island. These informants turned their life histories into morality fables o...
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... What was clear was that he had taken a widely recognized referent to race and set it into talk about authentic Puerto Ricanness in relation to birthplace. Miguel's slippage from race to birthplace is natural enough when we consider how often in Puerto Rico, the cultural heritage of the diaspora-born is perceived as "contaminated" by association with US blackness and urban poverty (Ramos-Zayas, 2003, 33-34;Rivera, 2007;Findlay, 2012). The diaspora-born argue back that decades of struggle for Puerto Rican rights in US diaspora communities have made them more Puerto Rican than ever and that the white, middle-class consumption patterns of island Puerto Ricans has rendered them more American than Puerto Remembering Abuela Rican (Ramos-Zayas, 2003;Dávila, 2012;Findlay, 2012). ...
