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Independencia! Nation Time!: A Comparative Analysis of Puerto Rican and African-American Cultural Nationalism

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Although very few Puerto Ricans and African-Americans support political nationalism or sovereignty when respectively expressed as the independence of Puerto Rico or the founding of a “separate black nation,” cultural nationalism enjoys vibrant and widespread support between both groups. Puerto Rican and African-American cultural nationalism are similar in that both view the autonomous preservation of perceived symbolic, linguistic, historic, and artifactual ties to their “homelands” as a means to maintain the distinct identity of their respective nations within the US nation. Thus adherents are less likely to feel closeness to America. In addition, cultural nationalism leads both groups to similar political conclusions regarding group political empowerment, group economic redistribution, and the persistence of racial/ethnic discrimination. However, as a testament to the different valences that race and class exert upon Puerto Rican versus African-American identity, class variables are more likely to explain Puerto Rican support for cultural nationalism and racial variables are more likely to explain African-American support for cultural nationalism. Along with constituency differences, these two forms of cultural autonomy may differently encourage these groups to form alignments with other racial minorities. Using data from the 1989-90 Latino National Political Survey and the 1993-94 National Black Politics Study, we examine and test the above assertions and discuss the current implications this work holds for understanding how beliefs about cultural autonomy affect American racial and ethnic politics.

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Shaw, Todd. and Olmo-Rodriguez, Sixto. "Independencia! Nation Time!: A Comparative Analysis of Puerto Rican and African-American Cultural Nationalism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2008-12-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41298_index.html>

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Shaw, T. C. and Olmo-Rodriguez, S. , 2005-09-01 "Independencia! Nation Time!: A Comparative Analysis of Puerto Rican and African-American Cultural Nationalism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2008-12-12 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41298_index.html

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Abstract: Although very few Puerto Ricans and African-Americans support political nationalism or sovereignty when respectively expressed as the independence of Puerto Rico or the founding of a “separate black nation,” cultural nationalism enjoys vibrant and widespread support between both groups. Puerto Rican and African-American cultural nationalism are similar in that both view the autonomous preservation of perceived symbolic, linguistic, historic, and artifactual ties to their “homelands” as a means to maintain the distinct identity of their respective nations within the US nation. Thus adherents are less likely to feel closeness to America. In addition, cultural nationalism leads both groups to similar political conclusions regarding group political empowerment, group economic redistribution, and the persistence of racial/ethnic discrimination. However, as a testament to the different valences that race and class exert upon Puerto Rican versus African-American identity, class variables are more likely to explain Puerto Rican support for cultural nationalism and racial variables are more likely to explain African-American support for cultural nationalism. Along with constituency differences, these two forms of cultural autonomy may differently encourage these groups to form alignments with other racial minorities. Using data from the 1989-90 Latino National Political Survey and the 1993-94 National Black Politics Study, we examine and test the above assertions and discuss the current implications this work holds for understanding how beliefs about cultural autonomy affect American racial and ethnic politics.

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Independencia! Nation Time!: A Comparative Analysis of Puerto Rican and African-American Cultural Nationalism Todd C. Shaw University of South Carolina at Columbia shawtc@sc.edu Sixto Olmo-Rodriguez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign olmo@uiuc.edu Comments are welcomed. Please forward all correspondence to: Todd C. Shaw University of South Carolina at Columbia Department of Political Science 350 Gambrell Hall Columbia SC 29208; 803-777-6507; shawtc@sc.edu Abstract Although very few Puerto Ricans and African-Americans support political nationalism or sovereignty when respectively expressed as the independence
.450*** .935 .749*** .334** (.106) (.093) (.074) (.128) 35 N= 484 466 717 670 Adjusted R2 .026 .063 .144 .044 Entries are unstandardized regression estimates with standard errors in parentheses. All independent variables were coded on a 0-1 interval unless indicated otherwise. All tests are two- tailed. * indicates p < .05. ** indicates p < .005. *** indicates p < .001 36 References


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