Borders, Terror, and Puerto Rican "Delinquent Citizenship".

Nevertheless, the ascriptive white supremacist core of civic identity in the US has effectively reduced the marginal value of Puerto Rican US citizenship (and the US citizenship of other racialized US-born populations) almost to a vanishing point compared with "resident alien" status. Twenty years ago, in May 2002, a reporter from a nationally renowned US news magazine asked me about José Padilla, otherwise known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, the so-called Puerto Rican Taliban. Footnotes 1 Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, I National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago i (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003); cf. [Extracted from the article]