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99% Invisible
The book was noted as being written by historian Yorel Melndez Vadillo and it examined how Puerto Rican identity was forged in opposition to colonialism, highlighting how the term was reclaimed and used to unite people.
This is Yorel Melndez Vadillo. He's an assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the book Puerto Rico, A National History. Yorel...
— Episode: Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Episode: Foreign in a Domestic Sense
The book was noted as being written by historian Yorel Melndez Vadillo and it examined how Puerto Rican identity was forged in opposition to colonialism, highlighting how the term was reclaimed and used to unite people.
This is Yorel Melndez Vadillo. He's an assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the book Puerto Rico, A National History. Yorel says that despite the Spanish crown's original intent to demean, people on the island embraced the term Puerto Rican, using it to rally around a shared identity.