Ramón E. Soto-Crespo
On his book Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico
Cover Interview of September 14, 2009
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literature /
law /
political science /
new york city /
state /
migration /
latinoa heritage /
anzaldua gloria /
puerto rico /
Editor’s note
Originally, this interview ran on the Rorotoko cover page under the headline
“A cultural history of a departure from conventional political and national forms.”
We highlighted two quotes.
On the first page:
“As a new form of political belonging, the borderland state combines attributes from conventional political forms (such as the sovereign nation-state and the federated state), but refuses to be either.”
On the second:
“The borderland state challenges the idea of nation-state or political nationalism as the only possible venue for the creation of a collective entity.”