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Author : Carmen Whalen
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1592134149
Histories of the Puerto Rican experience.
Author : Frank Espada
Publisher : Frank Espada
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0979124719
Author : Gabriel Haslip-Viera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 0578607697
This book is a follow-up to Taíno Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural Politics, an edited volume last published in 2001 (Princeton: Markus Wiener.) The book focuses on a socio-cultural and political movement among some Puerto Ricans and others who have adopted an exclusive Amerindian identity in recent decades as an alternative to the prevailing "nationalist" identity in place in Puerto Rico since the early 1950s based on the overall and demonstrated biological and cultural hybridity of its people. The book focuses on writings and debates that have ensued since the publication of Taíno Revival. . . in 2001, and includes discussion on the genetic background of Puerto Ricans, their history and culture, along with some speculation on why a subset of the Puerto Rican population, both on the island and the diaspora, would adopt and an excusive and unproven Amerindian identity they call "Taíno" which is a name that was give to the island's original inhabitants by 20th century scholars." -- page 4 of cover
Author : Lisa Sánchez-González
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814731468
Since the invasion and colonization of Puerto Rico in 1898, all Puerto Ricans are both American citizens and colonial subjects by birth according to international law. Over a third of this population currently lives in the continental U.S. forming one of the nation's most significant "minority" communities. Yet no complete study of mainland Puerto Rican—or Boricua—literature has been written. Until now. Boricua Literature is the first literary history of the Puerto Rican colonial diaspora. The result of a decade of research in archives and special collections in the Caribbean and in the U.S., Lisa Sánchez González argues that the writing of the Puerto Rican diaspora should be considered an integral field of study. Covering 100 years of Boricua literary history, each chapter looks at the single writer or group of writers who are most emblematic of their respective generation, from William Carlos Williams and Arturo Schomburg, to latina feminism and salsa music. The story of an American community of color, Boricua Literature is also about contemporary critical race and gender studies. Unlike virtually all studies concerning mainland Puerto Rican writing, Lisa Sánchez González is less concerned with "cultural identity" than with unearthing a substantive cultural intellectual history. The first explicitly literary historical analysis of Boricua Literature, this definitive study proposes a new and discreet area of literary historical research in American studies.
Author : Jose L. Torres-Padilla,Carmen Haydee Rivera
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295800165
The sixteen essays in Writing Off the Hyphen approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from current theoretical positions, with provocative and insightful results. The authors analyze how the diasporic experience of Puerto Ricans is played out in the context of class, race, gender, and sexuality and how other themes emerging from postcolonialism and postmodernism come into play. Their critical work also demonstrates an understanding of how the process of migration and the relations between Puerto Rico and the United States complicate notions of cultural and national identity as writers confront their bilingual, bicultural, and transnational realities. The collection has considerable breadth and depth. It covers earlier, undertheorized writers such as Luisa Capetillo, Pedro Juan Labarthe, Bernardo Vega, Pura Belpré, Arturo Schomburg, and Graciany Miranda Archilla. Prominent writers such as Rosario Ferré and Judith Ortiz Cofer are discussed alongside often-neglected writers such as Honolulu-based Rodney Morales and gay writer Manuel Ramos Otero. The essays cover all the genres and demonstrate that current theoretical ideas and approaches create exciting opportunities and possibilities for the study of Puerto Rican diasporic literature.
Author : Brenda Domínguez-Rosado
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443882095
Language and identity have an undeniable link, but what happens when a second language is imposed on a populace? Can a link be broken or transformed? Are the attitudes towards the imposed language influential? Can these attitudes change over time? The mixed-methods results provided by this book are ground-breaking because they document how historical and traditional attitudes are changing towards both American English (AE) and Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS) on an island where the population has been subjected to both Spanish and US colonization. There are presently almost four million people living in Puerto Rico, while the Puerto Rican diaspora has surpassed it with more than this living in the United States alone. Because of this, many members of the diaspora no longer speak PRS, yet consider themselves to be Puerto Rican. Traditional stances against people who do not live on the island or speak the predominant language (PRS) yet wish to identify themselves as Puerto Rican have historically led to prejudice and strained relationships between people of Puerto Rican ancestry. The sample study provided here shows that there is not only a change in attitude towards the traditional link between PRS and Puerto Rican identity (leading to the inclusion of diasporic Puerto Ricans), but also a wider acceptance of the English language itself on this Caribbean island.
Author : Edna Acosta-Belén
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008296426
Author : Andrés Torres,José Emiliano Velázquez
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1566396182
Little attention has been paid to the Latino movements of the 1960s and 1970s in the literature of social movements. This volume is the first significant look at the organizations that emerged in the late 1960s to promote Puerto Rican independence and the radical transformation of U.S. society. The Puerto Rican movement was a response to U.S. colonialism on the island and to the poverty and discrimination faced by most Puerto Ricans on the mainland. This anthology looks at the organizations that emerged to combat these two problems in such places as Boston, Chicago, Hartford, New York, and Philadelphia. Almost all the contributors worked with the organizations they describe. Interviews with such key figures as Elizam Escobar, Piri Thomas, and Luis Fuentes, as well as accounts by people active in the gay/lesbian, African American, and white Left movements, create a vivid picture of why and how people became radicalized and how their ideals intersected with their group's own dynamics.
Author : Ismael García-Colón
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520325791
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century. The Farm Labor Program, established by the government of Puerto Rico in 1947, placed hundreds of thousands of migrant workers on U.S. farms and fostered the emergence of many stateside Puerto Rican communities. Ismael García-Colón investigates the origins and development of this program and uncovers the unique challenges faced by its participants. A labor history and an ethnography, Colonial Migrants evokes the violence, fieldwork, food, lodging, surveillance, and coercion that these workers experienced on farms and conveys their hopes and struggles to overcome poverty. Island farmworkers encountered a unique form of prejudice and racism arising from their dual status as both U.S. citizens and as “foreign others,” and their experiences were further shaped by evolving immigration policies. Despite these challenges, many Puerto Rican farmworkers ultimately chose to settle in rural U.S. communities, contributing to the production of food and the Latinization of the U.S. farm labor force.
Author : Carmen Teresa Whalen,Víctor Vázquez-Hernández
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1592134130
Puerto Ricans have lived and worked for over a century in cities and towns across the United States -- not just in New York City. Highlighting the distinct and shared aspects of migration and community building in eight Puerto Rican communities, ranging from large urban centers in Boston and Chicago to smaller settlements in Hawaii and Ohio, the essays in The Puerto Rican Diaspora illuminate the historical richness and geographical diversity of the Puerto Rican experience.
Author : Jorge Duany
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861479
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952. Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican "nation" must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others--American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example--have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts.
Author : Jorge Duany
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190648695
The book begins with a historical overview of Puerto Rico during the Spanish colonial period (1493-1898). It then focuses on the first five decades of the U.S. colonial regime, particularly its efforts to control local, political, and economic institutions as well as to 'Americanize' the Island's culture and language. Jorge Duany delves into the demographic, economic, political, and cultural features of contemporary Puerto Rico--the inner workings of the Commonwealth government and the island's relationship to the United States. Lastly, the book explores the massive population displacement that has characterized Puerto Rico since the mid-20th century. Despite their ongoing colonial dilemma, Jorge Duany argues that Puerto Ricans display a strong national identity as a Spanish-speaking, Afro-Hispanic-Caribbean nation. While a popular tourist destination, few beyond its shores are familiar with its complex history and diverse culture.
Author : Edna Acosta-Belén,Carlos Enrique Santiago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018779288
Though now a significant ethnic group in the US, Puerto Ricans are rarely studied - and often misunderstood. Edna Acosta-Belen and Carlos Santiago change this status quo, presenting a nuanced portrait of both the community today and the trajectory of its development. The authors move deftly from Puerto Rico's colonial experience, through a series of waves of migration, to the emergence of the commuter patterns seen today. Not least, they draw on extensive data to dispel widespread myths and stereotypes. Their work is a long overdue corrective to conventional wisdom about the role of the Puerto Rican community within US society.
Author : Frank Espada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Photographs
ISBN : OCLC:26618544
Author : Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim,Kal Wagenheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : 1558762914
"This updated and expanded 2013 edition includes new articles on political prisoners and the Puerto Rican diaspora and its consequences. "An essential sourcebook for a better understanding of the Puerto Ricans. The editors believe that their experience as a people has been obscured by propaganda and that a subtle brand of colonialism still endures. They prove both points. . . . Their book [has] a kaleidoscopic, fast-paced rhythm that makes it engrossing reading. It is a welcome addition to both Puerto Rican historicity and to American ethnological literature." -- The New York Times "An excellent 'documentary history' of Puerto Rico, its problems, present status, tensions, and prospects." -- The Nation "A pleasure to read. Each page provides a fresh glimpse into the unfolding story of a people. The book captures the human and personal component of sweeping historical changes."-- International Migration Review, viewed on Amazon.com Dec. 31, 2020.
