Puerto Rican Artists Show Jones Act’s ‘Complicated Identity Struggle’ Through Art

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This month Puerto Ricans commemorated the centennial of the Jones Act, the first piece of legislation that gave Puerto Ricans a pathway to U.S. citizenship. Starting in 1917, people born in Puerto Rico, a territory of the U.S, were able to become American citizens through naturalization, and they did so for about 20 years. "It's a complicated identity struggle with our people," said Adrián Viajero Roman, co-founder of Defend Puerto Rico. Viajero Roman curated a show called “CitiCien: 100 Artists 100 Years of the Jones Act,” an exhibition that gathers the work Puerto Rican artists to shine a light on how this law impacted Puerto Rican history. Latino USA intern Nicole Acevedo visited the show and brings us the voices of some of those artists. Click here for the full story: http://latinousa.org/2017/03/09/puerto-rican-artists-show-jones-acts-complicated-identity-struggle-art/