...Solsiree del Moral In “Modern Puerto Rico,” historian Solsiree del Moral recommends five foundational readings on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of Puerto Rico. The selected readings introduce nonspecialists to the history of class, race, and gender relations on the island, with a...

...Darien Brahms This comparative photographic essay examines the socioeconomic state of Puerto Rico in the pre- and post-Operation Bootstrap eras. A visual narrative, it pairs the images of 1940s Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano with contemporary photographs by the author to...

...Lisa G. Materson This article examines the activism of three women of different generations—Emilia Rodríguez Sotero, Baldramina Sotero Cervoni, and Isabel Rosado Morales—in the movement for Puerto Rico's independence in the twentieth century to demonstrate the sheer breadth of some of the...

...Edgar Iván Gutiérrez MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2008 INTERVIEWS Pedagogy and Activism in Vieques, Puerto Rico: An Interview with Ismael Guadalupe Edgar Iván Gutiérrez Vieques, a small island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, has for many years...

...Kelvin Santiago-Valles MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2006 “Bloody Legislations,” “Entombment,” and Race Making in the Spanish Atlantic: Differentiated Spaces of General(ized) Confinement in Spain and Puerto Rico, 1750 – 1840 Kelvin Santiago-Valles As Karl Marx...

...Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 ”Higher Womanhood” Among the ”Lower Races”: Julia McNair Henry in Puerto Rico and the ”Burdens” of 1898 Kelvin A...

... exception that sanctioned the conquest of Native American tribes and lands and how between 1901 and 1921 they derived a similar status for the United States' insular colonies. It then foregrounds another interrelationship between Puerto Rico and its homologues: connected geostrategic and economic logics...

...Marisol LeBrón This article examines the practice of “carpeteo,” or politicized police surveillance and targeted harassment, during the 2010 and 2011 student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). LeBrón argues that police and security forces engaged in tactics that deeply resonated, for...

...Fernando Picó Instead of approaching the history of Puerto Rico from the habitual narrative of the failed attempts to create an independent state, this essay reviews five very different books which help give an alternative view of the island's history: Arturo Morales Carrión's Puerto Rico and the...

...Sara Awartani This article examines how Chicago Puerto Rican independentistas imagine the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States through an analysis of their articulations and actions with and on behalf of Palestinian self-determination in the 1970s and early 1980s...

... and Africa. He worked as a labor organizer and labor journalist in the US and Puerto Rico, and recently retired as director of the Arnold M. Dubin Labor Education Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In the interview, Soler discusses his early relationships to the Black Panthers and...

...Margaret Power José E. López discusses his childhood as an impoverished peasant in Puerto Rico and his youth as a marginalized Puerto Rican in Chicago. He then explores how key political events and movements of the 1960s, such as the Algerian revolution, the development of liberation theology...

... paper explores the forgotten experiment of removing and detaining Haitian refugees on an isolated military base in Puerto Rico, as an alternate location to Krome. In this vein, Krome's history maps military and migratory circuits between the United States and the Caribbean, and it underscores a longue...

... Puerto Rico chemistry References Alder Ken . 1998 . “Making Things the Same: Representation, Tolerance and the End of the Ancien Regime in France.” Social Studies of Science 28 , no. 4 : 499 – 545 . Atkins Edwin F. 1926 . Sixty Years in Cuba: Reminiscences of Edwin F. Atkins...

... respectability could privilege Puerto Ricans vis-à-vis Mexican American agricultural migrants in rural Michigan. Eileen J. Findlay is professor of history at American University. Her most recent publication on the history of Puerto Rico and its diaspora is We Are Left without a Father Here: Masculinity...

... . 2007 . Puerto Rico in the American Century. A History since 1898 . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . McCaffrey Katherine . 2006 . “Social Struggle against the U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico: Two Movements in History.” Latin American Perspectives 33 , no. 1 : 83...

... by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2017 Lolita Lebrón Nationalist Party gender relations 1954 attack on Congress References Corretjer Juan Antonio . 2008 . The Struggle for the Independence of Puerto Rico , Translated by Lee Consuelo Corretjer vi , Chicago...

... proud we shall all be when the first Puerto Rican anthropologist studies some other society-any other society-besides Puerto Rico! -S. Mintz (1978) [Tlhe question of the identity of the "we" that keeps coming up in phrases such as "ourselves" and "our own...

.... Twenty years from now, when people look at it, they can see how they lived through my art. MP: Many of your installations, even if they’re not explicit about it, refer to moments of historical importance to Puerto Ricans whether they are in Puerto Rico or New York or somewhere else. PO: What...

...Stephanie J. Smith Sueann Caulfield, In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. Eileen J. Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920 . Durham, NC...