History and memory are essential to cultural and diasporic identities. Today being Puerto Rican is no longer a matter of living here or there, in the Island or the U.S., nor is it tied to speaking Spanish. Puerto Ricans arts and culture reflects the interactions with the Island but also with the United States and the world. The result is a unique and complex bilingual/bicultural mix in everyday language, popular music, visual arts, and literature that maintains a strong center and also moves outside traditional stereotypes. This section presents this complexity.
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Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family |
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The only child of deaf Puerto Rican migrants, Andrés Torres grew up in New
York City in a large, extended family that included several deaf aunts and
uncles. In Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family, he
opens a window into the little known culture of Deaf Latinos chasing the
American dream.
Like many children of deaf adults (codas), Torres
loved his parents deeply but also longed to be free from being their interpreter
to the hearing world.
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With this 26th stamp in the Literary Arts stamp series, the U.S. Postal Service honors Julia de Burgos, one of Puerto Rico’s most celebrated poets. A revolutionary writer, thinker, and activist, de Burgos wrote more than 200 poems that probe issues of love, feminism, and political and personal freedom.
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 The Young Lords represented an awakening of Puerto Rican
radicalism - captured in this film.
!Palante, Siempre Palante! broadcast on national television is now available on DVD.
View trailer.
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Purchase the documentary at www.palante.org.
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Selenidad:Selena, Latinos, & the Performance of Memory |
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New book by Deborah Peredez
An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the 1995 death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Perez. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, Web sites, monuments, biographies, murals, look-alike contests, musicals, drag shows, and more.
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CALLE 13 Sweep The LATIN GRAMMY Awards – The Duo from Puerto Rico Wins Five Awards |
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| "La Perla" about a San Juan barrio is both poignant and hopeful. Salsa legend Ruben Blades raps with the Puerto Rican duo, Calle 13. |
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Book Review: The Black Panthers and the Assassination of Fred Hampton |
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 Written by Hans Bennett
Monday, 02 November 2009
Reviewed: The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther, by Jeffrey Haas, Published by Lawrence Hill Books, 424 Pages.
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Latino Flavored Productions posts Latina Epistles on Youtube |
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| Here is an epistle I wrote reflecting my grandmother's story. She came to the United States from Guayanilla, Puerto Rico in the 1940s. She worked in a laundry factory and as a community organizer in Brooklyn until she died of breast cancer when she was only 42. This letter is written to celebrate her. |
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Serial Murder South of the Border |
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 The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
Written by Teresa Rodriguez, Diana Montane with Lisa Pulitzer
(Abridged book review from Realistlatina.blogspot.com)
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book is an important, must read for anyone interested in social justice
issues - women/girls have been and are dying in huge numbers just a
stone throw away from the United States, near factories owned and
operated by American companies, with little to no real answers about
why.
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