Introduction: The Dynamics of Identity and the Role of Historical Memory -- Ch. 1. The Promise and Disillusion of Americanization: Surveying the Socioeconomic Terrain of Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico -- Ch. 2. Legitimating the Self through the Other: Elite Appropriations of the Jibaro in Changing Colonial Contexts -- Ch. 3. The Jibaro - Refuge of the Puerto Rican Soul: Elite Discourses of Nostalgia, Incorporation, and Betrayal -- Ch. 4. Popular Consciousness and Creative Expression: Constructing Self in the World of the Other -- Ch. 5. Marking the Bounds of Community and Claiming the Nation -- Ch. 6. Views of Women and Blackness: Defending and Contesting Ideologies of Otherness in the World of the Other -- Conclusion: Puerto Rico as Colony, as Case Study
