Puerto Rico: surviving colonialism and nationalism / Mariano Negrón-Portillo -- The divorce of nationalist discourses from the Puerto Rican people: a sociohistorical perspective / Ramón Grosfoguel -- Puerto Rico: the myth of the national economy / Jaime E. Benson-Arias -- The discreet charm of the proletariat: imagining early-twentieth-century Puerto Ricans in the past twenty-five years of historical inquiry / Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles -- Narrating the tropical pharmacy / José Quiroga -- Deconstructing Puerto Ricanness through sexuality: female counternarratives on Puerto Rican identity, 1894-1934 / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel -- "So we decided to come and ask you ourselves": the 1928 U.S. Congressional hearings on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico / Gladys Jiménez-Muñoz -- Islands at the crossroads: Puerto Ricanness traveling between the translocal nation and the global city / Augustín Lao -- Puerto Rican identity up in the air: air migration, cultural representations, and me "cruzando el charco" / Alberto Sandoval Sánchez -- "Pa' la escuelita con mucho cuida'o y por la orillita": a journey through the contested terrains of the nation and sexual orientation / Manuel Guzmán -- Contending nationalisms: culture, politics, and corporate sponsorship in Puerto Rico / Arlene Dávila -- Rapping two versions of the same requiem / Raquel Z. Rivera -- English only jamás but Spanish only cuidado: language and nationalism in contemporary Puerto Rico / Frances Negrón-Muntaner.