"Mostly of Spanish Extraction": Second-Class Citizenship and Racial Formation in Puerto Rican Chicago, 1946-1965.

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      The article looks back at a time before the emergence of Latino as a broad ethnoracial category in the U.S. in the 20th century. The author highlights the migration of Puerto Ricans to Chicago, Illinois, after World War II. He examines archives and scholarship on racial formation in order to explore the role of migration and citizenship in the formation of races in the country.