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Reading List: Puerto Rican Studies

Migration and Diaspora

1. Jorge Duany, The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

2. Arlene Davila, Barrio Dreams (Berkeley: Univrsity of California Press, 2004).

3. Carmen Whalen and Victor Vazquez-Hernandez, The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005).

4. Carmen Whalen, From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001).

Radical Thought and Activism

5. The Young Lords and Michael Abramson, Palante: Young Lords Party (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971).

6. Young, Cynthia. Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a Third World Left (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).

7. Darrel Enck-Wanzer, ed., The Young Lords: A Reader (New York: New York University Press, 2010).

8. Frederick F. Wherry, The Philadelphia Barrio / The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation, (The University of Chicago Press 2011)

9. Lorrin Thomas, Puerto Rican Citizen/ History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century  New York City,  (The University of Chicago Press 2011)

10. Rick Hall & *Batiendo la Jolla: Oral History Project, Taller Puertorriqueño 1978 -79

Taino Revival

1. Gabriel Haslip-Viera and Arlene Davila, ed., Taino Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural Politics (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001).

2. *Anabelle Rodriguez with Guest Curator Dr. Dicey Taylor, Island of the Burén: The Taínos and their predecessors in Puerto Rico, an exhibition catalogue (Taller Puertorriqueño, 2005)

3. Fatima Bercht, et. al., Taino: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean, an exhibition catalogue (New York: El Museo del Barrio,1997)

Cultural Politics

Frances Negron-Muntaner, Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2004)

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

 Miscellaneous articles:

a. Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, “Invoking Arturo Schomburg’s legacy in Philadelphia,” in The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).

b. Ballester, Diógenes. “The Aesthetic Development of Puerto Rican Visual Arts in New York as Part of the Diaspora: The Epitaph of the Barrio.” In Homenaje Alma Taller Boricua XXX Aniversario, 30–35. San Juan: Museo del las Américas, 2001.

c. Benitez, Marimar. “The Special Case of Puerto Rico,” The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970, ed. Luis Cancel (New York: Bronx Museum, 1988), 72-105.

d. Caragol-Barreto, Taina. “Aesthetics of Exile: The Construction of Nuyorican Identity in the Art of El Taller Boricua,” Centro Journal 17:2 (Fall 2005): 7-19.

e. Goldman, Shifra. “Between “Aqui” and “Allá”: Thirty Years of the Taller Boricua,” In Homenaje Alma Taller Boricua XXX Aniversario, 30–35. San Juan: Museo del las Américas, 2001.

Reference Sites

http://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu