Search Results for Puerto Ricans in New York

...Cristina Pérez Jiménez Drawing from Earl Browder’s papers, this essay examines the Communist-sponsored, New York Spanish-language newspaper Pueblos Hispanos (1943–44), arguing that the publication staged an uneasy alliance between the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and the US Communist Party...

... sol In Philadelphia, I am instructed to switch planes. Th ere is a forty-minute wait. Th e waiting room is fi lled with the familiar faces of Puerto Rican strangers. Spanglish words fl ow all around me. I have made this voyage from New York countless times, taking it for granted...

... of the Puerto Rican population lives on the US mainland.¹ Some scholars have used the phrases commuter nation and translocal nation to illuminate the transit of bodies on fl ights between San Juan and cities such as New York, Miami, and Chicago.² Th ese terms divided nation, commuter nation, translocal...

.... Although reggaeton has generally been associated with Puerto Ricans on the island, Nuyoricans (Puerto Ricans in New York), Jamaicans, Panamanians, and Dominicans have all played important roles in the music’s development. Musically, reggaeton draws from various urban genres across the African diaspora...

... also faced the constraints of being a woman of mixed race in the patriarchal Puerto Rican society of the early twentieth century. Adding to these factors were her fraught locations as a colonial citizen of Puerto Rico and, later on, a colonial migrant to the New York metropolis, and the different...

... For more on Puerto Ricans and blackness, see Ileana Rodriguez-Silva, Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); and Isar Godreau, Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and US Colonialism in Puerto Rico...

... For a well-researched, thorough analysis of the colonial antecedents to the Puerto Rican demonstrations of 2019, see Ed Morales, Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico (New York: Bold Type, 2019). 14 On the important intersectional actions of the Colectiva...

.... As a result of yet another family tragedy in New York, La carreta ends with the mother and daughter deciding to leave the United States to return to the Puerto Rican countryside. By returning to the land, they quixotically hope to cleanse themselves and change their fate. Yet La carreta never depicts...

... See Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Alexa S. Dietrich, The Drug Company Next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico (New York: New York University Press, 2013...

... Anthropology: The Making of the People of Puerto Rico” (PhD diss., New School for Social Research, New York, 1989). For other important reflections, see the entire issue of Review/Revista Interamericana 8, no. 1 (1978), including Sidney W. Mintz, “The Role of Puerto Rico in Modern Social Science,” 5–16...

..., ed., None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 195–210. 26 Vicky Unruh has noted that, owing to the island's anomalous position in Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico's vanguardist activity centered more on political concerns—namely...

... Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth , trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove, 2004), 20–21. 9 I think through my own non-Black, queer, and disabled Puerto Rican positioning here through Dixa Ramírez-D’Oleo’s critique of White women’s epistemic obsession with the ecological vitality within Black...

... critical perspectives. Some examples are the epistolary volume Cartas a Consuelo , edited by Eugenio Ballou, which includes the letters written to her younger sister during her exile in Cuba and New York; the special volume of CENTRO: Journal for Puerto Rican Studies dedicated to Burgos, edited by Lena...

... that transpires in Hispanic Caribbean New York. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Fernando Ortiz hispanophone Caribbean diaspora contact zone Nuyorican Caliban Miguel Algarín Jesus Abraham “Tato” Laviera Roberto Márquez Lourdes Casal Spanglish Puerto Rican diaspora For Tato Laviera Charles...

... of involving himself in Cuban and Puerto Rican émigré separatist clubs in New York City, “Arthur A.” settled into his life as a mixed-race but black-identifying Latino with extensive affective and collaborative connections with US black Americans. This led him to distance himself from the Puerto Rican...

...: Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, forthcoming). 16 See Amauta Marston-Firmino, “The Storm Next Time,” Theater 49, no. 1 (2019): 3–5. 17 See Paul Clements, The Creative Underground: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life (New York: Routledge, 2016); and Monica M. White, Freedom Farmers...

... artist-photographer based in New York, where he moved in 1982 to study at Parsons School of Design. He began to work as an assistant to various well-known photographers in the late 1980s. In 1992 he founded and directed a group of highly gifted Puerto Rican artists called O. P. Art, Inc. (Organization...

...”; Ramos, introduction to Amor y anarquía , 37. 40 Lisa Sánchez González, Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora (New York: New York University Press, 2001), 81. 39 Meléndez-Badillo, The Lettered Barriada , 94. 38 “The land [or the earth] belongs to all...

... University Press, 2008); Raquel Rivera, New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (New York: Palgrave, 2003); Juan Flores, From Bomba to Hip Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); Cesar Salgado, “The Archive and Afro-Latin@ Field-Formation: Arturo Alfonso...

... (1868–78) and La Guerra Chiquita (1879–80) in Cuba prompted an increased migration of black Cubans and Puerto Ricans to the United States during the late nineteenth century. It was no coincidence that so many moved to New York City. In addition to the lucrative cigar industry that hired a large number...