Centro Journal
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Special Section: Functions and valorization of language in Puerto Rico
Guest Editor:Alicia Pousada
Functions and valorization of language in Puerto Rico: An introduction
Alicia Pousada
“Language is our only homeland”: An interview with Luz María Umpierre
Carmen Haydée Rivera
Delegitimizing oppressive culture: The voice of counter-discourse in Umpierre’s poetic work
Alma Simounet
Poem: White blindness
Elidio la Torre Lagares
Poem: Learning Spanish
Richard Marx Weinraub
Poem: You are now entering Bronx Piedras!
Urayoan Noel
Fifo’s Pizza
José Delgado-Costa
Negotiating el difícil: Uses of English text in a rural Puerto Rican community
Catherine M. Mazak
The social and educational inequalities of black students studying English in rural Puerto Rico
Elena González Rivera
Puerto Rican language use on Myspace.com
Kevin Carroll
Lengua, poder y estrategias en los tribunales de justicia: análisis discursivo de cuatro vistas para determinación de causa en el tribunal de San Juan de Puerto Rico
Aida Vergne
The mandatory use of English in the federal court of Puerto Rico
Alicia Pousada
María Vaquero y el desarrollo de la lingüística hispánica en Puerto Rico
María Inés Castro
Other essays
Inhabiting Isla Nena: Imperial dramas, gendered geographical imaginings and Vieques, Puerto Rico
Marie Cruz Soto
Brothels, hell and Puerto Rican bodies: Sex, race, and other cultural politics in 21st century artistic representations
Hilda Lloréns
Both ways: Entrevista a Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, autora de Caribe Two Ways (2003)
Francisco Cabanillas
Review Essay
Poverty, culture and social capital in Puerto Rican urban communities
Felipe Pimentel
Book Reviews:
None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era
By Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Reviewed by Rubén Ríos Ávila
Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases
By Carlos R. Soltero
Reviewed by Jodie G. Roure
The State and Small-Scale Fisheries in Puerto Rico
By Ricardo Pérez
Reviewed by David Griffith
Cayeyanos: familias y solidaridades en la historia de Cayey
By Fernando Picó
Reviewed by José O. Sola
Cave of the Jagua: The Mythological World of the Taínos
By Antonio M. Stevens-Arroyo
Reviewed by Luis N. Rivera-Pagán
Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History since 1898
By César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe
Reviewed by Pedro San Miguel
La que te llama vida: Inés M. Mendoza Rivera, su vida interior en sus diarios y cartas
By Daisy Sánchez Collazo
Reviewed by Mario Pérez Miranda
Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation
By Elizabeth Aranda
Reviewed by Maura I. Toro-Morn
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Slippery semantics: Race talk and everyday uses of racial terminology in Puerto Rico
Isar P. Godreau
De la disco al caserío : Urban spatial aesthetics and policy to the beat of reggaetón
Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores
Deluxe squatters in Puerto Rico: The case of La Parguera’s casetas
Rima Brusi-Gil de Lamadrid
Entrevista a Fernando Picó
Marisa Pérez Domínguez
Celebrating the colonial nation in San Germán’s Patron Saint Festivities, 1950s
Antonio Sotomayor-Carlo
The Development Bank and the initial failure of the industrial program in Puerto Rico, 1942–1948
José L. Bolivar
Usmaíl: Pedro Juan Soto’s classic Vieques novel: An interview with Charley Connelly and Myrna Pagán
Katherine T. McCaffrey
Ernesto Quiñonez’s fiction seen as a picaresque narrative
Ignacio F. Rodeño Iturriaga
La otra cara de la historia y el teatro popular puertorriqueño: El Tajo del Alacrán de Lydia Milagros González
Carlos Manuel Rivera
An astounding treasure: Dual language education in a public school setting
Susana C. DeJesús
DIÁLOGO: The mtDNA debate: A diálogo on “How important is it?”
Amerindian mtDNA in Puerto Rico: When does DNA matter?
Jorge Estevez
Amerindian mtDNA does not matter: A reply to Jorge Estevez and the privileging of a Taíno identity in the Spanish Caribbean
Gabriel Haslip-Viera
BOOK REVIEWS:
Latina Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the United States
Edited by Jill Denner and Bianca Guzman
Reviewed by Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas
Puerto Rican Poetry, An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
Edited and Translated by Roberto Márquez
Reviewed by Alan West-Durán
Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States
By José Ramón Sánchez
Reviewed by Aldo Lauria Santiago
Extended Statehood in the Caribbean: Paradoxes of Quasi Colonialism, Local Autonomy and Extended Statehood in the USA, French, Dutch and British Caribbean
Edited by Lammert de Jong and Dirk Kruijt
Reviewed by Aarón Gamaliel Ramos
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States & the Philippines
By Paul A. Kramer
Reviewed by Lanny Thompson
Barganing for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City
By Nicole P. Marwell
Reviewed by José Ramón Sánchez
Spanish Harlem’s Musical Legacy: 1930–1980
By Silvio H. Alava
Reviewed by José E. Cruz
His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.
By Geraldo Rivera
Reviewed by Howard Jordan
Los bembeteos de la plena puertorriqueña
By Ramón López
Reviewed by Melanie Maldonado
Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails
By Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé
Reviewed by Juana María Rodríguez
¡Que el pueblo decida!: La gobernación de Roberto Sánchez Vilella
By Ligia T. Domench Abreu
Reviewed by Ángel Israel Rivera Ortiz
