The Center for Puerto Ricans Studies (Centro) seeks original research proposals that result in unpublished academic papers for a symposium, and their consideration for ultimate publication in CENTRO Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, a peer-reviewed publication.
CALL FOR PAPERS
GUEST EDITORS/EDITORES INVITADOS
GUEST EDITORS Diana Aramburu (University of California, Davis) and Tania Carrasquillo Hernández (Linfield University)
We are soliciting manuscripts from both academics and practitioners in English or Spanish for this special issue and welcome academic articles, essays, interviews, oral histories and testimonies related to the theme.
On September 28, 2020, the Black transfeminist collective, La Colectiva Feminista, summoned and organized the “¡Vivas nos queremos! — pa’ la tumba el patriarcado” march to end in front of La Fortaleza, the governor’s mansion, in Old San Juan, repeating their call to the Puerto Rican government to declare a State of Emergency due to the rising rates of femicide and gender-based violence on the island. This call to declare a State of Emergency takes place almost a year since the December 20, 2019 manifestations, where women and non-binary people from all parts of Puerto Rico gathered...
CALL FOR PAPERS
GUEST EDITORS/EDITORES INVITADOS
José Javier Colón Morera (Universidad de Puerto Rico) and Charles R. Venator-Santiago (University of Connecticut)
We are soliciting manuscripts from both academics and practitioners in English or Spanish for this special issue and welcome academic articles, essays, interviews, oral histories and testimonies related to the theme.
Between 1898 and 1901, the United States began to develop a new expansionist territorial law and policy to rule Puerto Rico and the other territories anne xed during the Spanish-American War. Sometimes described as the doctrine of territorial incorporation or the doctrine of separate and unequal, the ensuing insular or territorial law and policy departed from prior expansionist precedents. It enabled the federal government to rule Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory...
