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"""Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis."" -- Jorge Duany * author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know * ""The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies."" -- Edna Acosta-Belén * Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY * ""Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis."" -- Jorge Duany * author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know * ""The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies."" -- Edna Acosta-Belén * Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY *"

"""Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis.""— Jorge Duany, author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know ""The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies.""— Edna Acosta-Belén, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY ""Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis.""— Jorge Duany, author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know ""The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies.""— Edna Acosta-Belén, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY"

Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Melendez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis. --Jorge Duany author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know

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EDGARDO MELÉNDEZ is a retired professor from the department of political science at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras and the department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino studies at Hunter College. His latest books are Patria: Puerto Rican Exiles in Late Nineteenth Century New York City, and Sponsored Migration: The State and Postwar Puerto Rican Migration to the United States.

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