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Press coverage of the Spanish-American War in U.S. newspapers is often cited as the classic example of sensationalist and jingoist propaganda. This research approaches the reporting of this war as a form of colonial dis- course that supported the ideology of imperialism at the turn of the century, and revealed a process of inscribing ethnic otherness on the colo- nized people of Puerto Rico. Through a textual analysis of news reports of the U.S. military occupation of the island in six metropolitan dailies,

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