“Women Ask Relief for Puerto Ricans”: Territorial Citizenship, the Social Security Act, and Puerto Rican Communities, 1933–1939

摘要: In the 1930s, social workers employed by New Deal agencies in Puerto Rico played central roles advocating for coverage of under new federal welfare provisions. These fought island to be included Social Security Act 1935 building political coalitions petition US Congress inclusion. Territorial law allowed determine on a case-by-case basis how administer policies, including provisions, which they restricted based popular colonial discourses that cast Ricans as racially inferior and justified imperialism. This essay explores organized were successful achieving partial amendments made 1939. However, these changes slow, while further was expanded over proceeding half century, still remains only partially policies are determined Congress.