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Author : Francesco Cordasco
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874711622
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Puerto Rican Experience written by Francesco Cordasco and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ismael García-Colón
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520325796
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire written by Ismael García-Colón and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lorrin Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226796108
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Citizen written by Lorrin Thomas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City’s most complex and distinctive migrant communities. In Puerto Rican Citizen, Lorrin Thomas for the first time unravels the many tensions—historical, racial, political, and economic—that defined the experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II. Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival sources, interviews, and first-person accounts of Puerto Rican life in New York, this book illuminates the rich history of a group that is still largely invisible to many scholars. At the center of Puerto Rican Citizen are Puerto Ricans’ own formulations about political identity, the responses of activists and ordinary migrants to the failed promises of American citizenship, and their expectations of how the American state should address those failures. Complicating our understanding of the discontents of modern liberalism, of race relations beyond black and white, and of the diverse conceptions of rights and identity in American life, Thomas’s book transforms the way we understand this community’s integral role in shaping our sense of citizenship in twentieth-century America.
Author : Carmen Whalen
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592134144
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Diaspora written by Carmen Whalen and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of the Puerto Rican experience.
Author : Bonnie Urciuoli
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478610492
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Exposing Prejudice written by Bonnie Urciuoli and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urciuolis award-winning book explores how language and the social construction of race, class, and ethnicity shape the lives of working-class Puerto Ricans living in New York City. Her reflexive ethnographic study is a combination of two absorbing features: her analyses of language and power relations based on key principles in semiotic and linguistic anthropology, paired with the authentic voices of individuals who share their lived experiences of speaking Spanish and English. The subjects conversations, interview responses, and anecdotes are saturated with ideas about what correct English means to them. Through these extended transcripts readers gain insight about languages role in cultural dynamics that tangle minority populations in challenges, such as limiting where individuals and families live and work. Urciuolis provocative research and fieldwork give readers a rich understanding of language as the domain in which racial, ethnic, and class hierarchies are experienced.
Author : Ed Morales
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568588984
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Fantasy Island written by Ed Morales and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests. Taking readers from San Juan to New York City and back to his family's home in the Luquillo Mountains, Morales shows us the machinations of financial and political interests in both the US and Puerto Rico, and the resistance efforts of Puerto Rican artists and activists. Through it all, he emphasizes that the only way to stop Puerto Rico from being bled is to let Puerto Ricans take control of their own destiny, going beyond the statehood-commonwealth-independence debate to complete decolonization.
Author : Lorrin R Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351678728
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights written by Lorrin R Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans’ political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States to create communities for themselves and their compatriots in times and places where dark-skinned or ‘foreign’ Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose to prominence in the late 1960s was built on a foundation of civil rights activism beginning much earlier in the century. The text contextualizes Puerto Rican activism within the broader context of twentieth-century civil rights movements, while emphasizing the characteristics and goals unique to the Puerto Rican experience. Lucid and insightful, Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights provides a much-needed introduction to a lesser-known but critically important social and political movement.
Author : Francesco Cordasco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780405062100
Total Pages : 10610 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Puerto Rican Experience written by Francesco Cordasco and published by . This book was released on 1975-02-01 with total page 10610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernardo Vega
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Bernardo Vega written by Bernardo Vega and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clara E. Rodriguez
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9781558761179
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Historical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Survival in the U.S. written by Clara E. Rodriguez and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1996 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book continues to resonate with readers in part because it mirrors the experiences of other groups, both past and more recent immigrant groups; and in part because, when the authors wrote their essays, they spoke honestly about issues they cared about but others tended to ignore. As the editors' new introductions to each article indicate, the anthology has also served as a spring from which other works have developed.
Author : Frank Espada
Publisher : Frank Espada
ISBN 13 : 9780979124716
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Puerto Rican Diaspora written by Frank Espada and published by Frank Espada. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlos E. Cortés
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Regional Perspectives on the Puerto Rican Experience written by Carlos E. Cortés and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samiri H. Hiraldo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813060255
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience written by Samiri H. Hiraldo and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A well-rounded and perceptive analysis of why Puerto Ricans have converted en masse to Protestantism, especially Pentecostalism, as well as how the Catholic hierarchy has grappled with greater religious heterogeneity."--Journal of Latin American Studies "This book presages the new scholarship on religion so badly needed in Puerto Rican studies. ...[E]legantly weaves history, politics, and ecclesiastical endeavors into a narrative that is preeminently about faith."--Centro Journal "Records religious diversity and complexity in a town that is usually observed through racial lenses that render it homogeneous and fixed in the past. ...[C]ontributes to the understanding of the deep interrelation between religion, spirituality, identity, and race in contemporary Puerto Rico and part of its Diaspora."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion Loíza is a Puerto Rican town known for best representing the African traditions. Its mostly black population is affected by profound racial discrimination and poverty. Many Loíza residents strongly identify themselves in religious terms, strategically managing their identities through a spiritual prism that effectively helps them cope with and transform their difficult reality. Based on twelve months of fieldwork, this study shows how believers experience their religion in its various dimensions. Arguing that understanding and respecting the power of religion in this community is essential to addressing and remedying its social problems, Hernández Hiraldo contests the characterization of Puerto Rico as a culturally homogenous country with a monolithic church.
Author : Piri Thomas
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679732389
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Down These Mean Streets written by Piri Thomas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A linguistic event. Gutter language, Spanish imagery and personal poetics . . . mingle into a kind of individual statement that has very much its own sound." --The New York Times Book Review Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. Thirty years after its first appearance, this classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in an anniversary edition with a new Introduction by the author.
Author : Arno Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (219 download)
Download or read book The Puerto Rican Experience written by Arno Press and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juan Flores
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Puerto Rican Arrival in New York written by Juan Flores and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of first-hand reminiscences about the mid-20th-century migration from Puerto Rico to the US. The documentary importance of these testimonies is evident, particularly in their capturing of the actual voyage from Puerto Rico and arrival in New York, which dwell on the psychological and existential trauma of arrival and first impressions.
Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : Palabra
ISBN 13 : 9780306814525
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)
Download or read book When I Was Puerto Rican written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Palabra. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.
