Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora (review)

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-234
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. (Lawrence Martin) La Fountain-Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Puerto Rican Diaspora ◽  
History Of

Organizing Puerto Rican Domestics: Resistance and Household Labor Reform in the Puerto Rican Diaspora after 1930

2015 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 67-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Amador
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Contract Work ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Puerto Rican Women ◽  
Labor Exploitation ◽  
Puerto Rican Diaspora ◽  
History Of

AbstractOn November 28, 1946, a group of Puerto Rican women picketed the Chicago offices of Castle, Barton, and Associates, a private employment agency that had brought them to the city to become domestic workers. They protested low wages, long hours, and deductions from their pay for transportation and other costs. Their resistance challenged the Puerto Rican and United States governments to both recognize local labor exploitation and grapple with Puerto Rican rights as those of migrant United States citizens. These women made demands on the Puerto Rican state to regulate migrant contract work and sponsor training programs for domestic work. They would succeed as colonial subjects to gain recognition as workers. Nonetheless, they failed to win well-paid, safe, and desirable jobs. This history of Puerto Rican women's domestic work and their struggle for regulation illuminates a formative moment in the history of Puerto Rican women's organizing and activism for labor rights.

Landmarks in Contemporary Puerto Rican Letters

1958 ◽  
Vol 14 (03) ◽  
pp. 247-257
Author(s):  
María Teresa Babín
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
European Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Epic Poems

America became a reality in western civilization from the early period of the Golden Age in the literature of the Iberian peninsula. By the seventeenth century the works of a few outstanding personalities already born in America had been added to the bibliographical sources available in the European libraries and universities. The literature of Puerto Rico has also had a place in the panorama of Spanish American letters since the arrival of European culture at the end of the fifteenth century and the era of conquest and colonization during the sixteenth century. The trends of the literary history of this Caribbean island have followed the pattern of the literary development in the New World. It was initiated with the letters and the chronicles, the epic poems and the annals of the first men entrusted with the mission of conquest and settlement in the newly acquired possessions.

Landmarks in Contemporary Puerto Rican Letters

1958 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-257
Author(s):  
María Teresa Babín
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
European Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Epic Poems

America became a reality in western civilization from the early period of the Golden Age in the literature of the Iberian peninsula. By the seventeenth century the works of a few outstanding personalities already born in America had been added to the bibliographical sources available in the European libraries and universities.The literature of Puerto Rico has also had a place in the panorama of Spanish American letters since the arrival of European culture at the end of the fifteenth century and the era of conquest and colonization during the sixteenth century. The trends of the literary history of this Caribbean island have followed the pattern of the literary development in the New World. It was initiated with the letters and the chronicles, the epic poems and the annals of the first men entrusted with the mission of conquest and settlement in the newly acquired possessions.

“Cosa Nuestra”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Njoroge Njoroge
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
York City ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Puerto Rican Diaspora ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Voice

This chapter explores the history of Salsa in New York City. In the late 1960’s Salsa became the vehicle for the cultural expressions of community, aesthetics, and identity for the Puerto Ricans, Nuyoricans, and other Latinos. Salsa was a musical celebration and valorization of Nuyorican identity and became the voice of the alienated and disenfranchised barrio youth in New York City and beyond. Though in the main, its practitioners heralded from the Puerto Rican diaspora: from its very inception “salsa” has been a pan-Caribbean creation. With the Cuban Revolution, the subsequent recording ban of 1961 and the embargo of 1962, New York City displaced Havana as the center of Latin music. After the brief but rich Boogaloo explosion of the mid-Sixties, salsa took over the airwaves and dance-floors. If Boogaloo can be seen as an anticipation of and response to the Civil Rights movement, salsa was “Black Power.”

Migration and Modernities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

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