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Juan Sánchez, “¿What’s The Meaning of This?”
It’s no secret that Juan Sánchez’s Puerto Rican roots have a deep impact on his work. In a new exhibition entitled “¿What’s The Meaning of This?” curator and Vice President, Contemporary Art at BRIC Elizabeth Ferrer has selected from the artist’s body of work to produce the incredible collection of painting, video, and collage on display at the BRIC House Gallery. The exhibition celebrates one of...
A Workshop for Happiness: Boston ArtWeek Goes Tropical
Living amongst a temperamental archipelago has me in a bit of a bind, I am stuck between three islands that embrace me or make an effort to keep me out; Manhattan, Long Island (home to Brooklyn) and Puerto Rico. Having said that, I accept any and every excuse to boricuar. But what does that mean you say? Exempt your absence by making yourself available for cultural events that point to the...
My discovery of the Young Lords through three NYC exhibitions
P’alante—words that ironically throw us immediately back in time to the organization that embodied the phrase during the late 60s early 70s-—The Young Lords Party, one of the best known Puerto Rican led political organizations of its era. In the past few months, the phrase has taken on new meaning as three institutions pay tribute to the Young Lord’s impact in New York City with a multi-site...
Puerto Rican Soldiers: A Review of "Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military"
Since President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948, ordering the armed forces to provide equal treatment and opportunity for servicemen without regard to color, race, national origin or religion (in essence calling for desegregation), the roles of minorities in the military have steadily increased. The history of minorities in the military, however, does not begin or end...
Lorenzo Homar: Nuyorican Pioneer
There’s something bigger than life about Larry Homar. At least that’s what I thought the first time I saw his portrait a few months ago, when I first learned about him. This man emanates the je ne sais quoi of the renaissance souls of yesteryears. I was not too far off. Larry Homar, or Lorenzo Homar as is his rightful name, was and remains in the hearts of those who knew him a Puerto Rican jack-...
A New Look at the Puerto Rican Civil Rights Movement
Scholarly books about “identity” present a number of risks. How does one measure identity when individual identity, let alone group identity, is in a constant state of transformation? Do we privilege one “identity” over another? Is identity the catalyst for a host of social, political, and economic developments in American history or is identity the result of these structural changes? Sonia Song-...
Dos espacios de pura creación
La más reciente muestra del artista puertorriqueño de Nueva York José Morales expuesta en el Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico explora y confronta dos mundos, dos culturas, dos espacios de pura creación . Abecedario afectivo es el nombre que lleva por título la más reciente producción artística de José Morales (Nueva York, 1947). La exhibición curada por Juan Carlos López Quintero presenta escenas...
Nuyorican Poets and their Impact in Latino Poetry
The poetics of the “Broken Souths” in the context of neoliberal economics and its sociocultural literary significance is at the core of Michael Dowdy’s 2013 book, aptly and descriptively titled: Broken Souths: Latino/a Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism . A good extent of the discussion centers on the work of Nuyorican and/or Boricua writers, among them: Martín Espada, Víctor Hernández Cruz, Jack...
Growing Pains and Cultural Affirmation: Writing About Puerto Rican Women in Film and Literature
Revolving-Door Life Writing: Literature and Cinema of Puerto Rican Women by Christin Freyer was published last year by Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg as part of their monograph series on American Studies. The series is an interesting one as it aims to present an internationalized approach to American Studies, focusing on multi-ethnic and/or global issues across fields of study that pertain...
SJU→MSP: A Puerto Rican Woman in Minnesota
I read Neil Genzlinger’s “ The Problem with Memoirs ” in 2011, and it almost stopped me from ever sitting down with a memoir again. But I’m glad that I have an erratic memory and had long since had forgotten about his article. Otherwise I would not have picked up and savored Nancy Bird’s recently published “mini” memoir, Put Together: A Minne-Memoir . I would have deprived myself of an...

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