Centro Journal
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Vol. XXIII, no. 1, Spring 2011
Essays:
Central Park Rumba: Nuyorican Identity and The Return to African Roots
Berta Jottar
Pidieron cacao: Latinidad and Black Identity in the Reggaetón of Don Omar
Jennifer Domino Rudolph
Pluralism and Ethnicity in New York City Politics: The Case of Puerto Ricans
José E. Cruz
Pedro Albizu Campos, Gilberto Concepción de Gracia, and Vito Marcantonio’s Collaboration in the Cause of Puerto Rico’s Independence
Gerald J. Meyer
Migration and Political Resocialization: The Impact of Political Environment Change on Political Orientations among Puerto Rican Return Migrants
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
Problematic Ideas of Puerto Rico in Puerto Rican Cinema: Luis Molina Casanova’s La guagua aérea
Débora Maldonado-DeOliveira
The Fire Between Them: Religion & Gentrification in Ernesto Quiñonez’s Chango’s Fire
Susan C. Méndez
Taíno Warriors?: Strategies for Recovering Indigenous Voices in Colonial and Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean Discourses
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Book Reviews
Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City, by Lorrin Thomas (Edgardo Meléndez)
Power at the Roots: Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side, by Miranda J. Martinez (Tom Angotti)
Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family, by Andrés Torres (Robert J. Hoffmeister)
A World among These Islands: Essays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean America, by Roberto Márquez (Efraín Barradas)
The Young Lords: A Reader, edited by Darrel Enck-Wanzer (Saulo Colón Zavala)
Latino Politics, by Lisa García Bedolla (Melissa R. Michelson)
Handbook of Latinos and Education: Theory, Research, and Practice, edited by Enrique J. Murillo, Jr., Sofia A. Villenas, Ruth Trinidad Galván, Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Corinne Martínez, and Margartia Machado-Casas (Déborah Berman Santana)
CENTRO Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
volume ; xxiii - number II ; - Fall ; 2011
PATHWAYS TO ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
Table of Contents
Guest Editors: Edwin Meléndez
Puerto Ricans in the U.S. Low-Wage Labor Market:
Introduction to the Issues, Trends, and Policies
M. Anne Visser and Edwin Meléndez
Transitions to Wage Labor and Postsecondary Education Among Puerto Rican Youth
William Vélez and Pat Rubio Goldsmith
Low-Wage Labor, Markets and Skills Selectivity Among
Puerto Ricans Migrants
Edwin Meléndez and M. Anne Visser
Stateside Puerto Ricans and the Public Workforce Development System:
New York City, Hartford, Springfield/Holyoke
Ramón Borges-Méndez
Puerto Ricans and the Green Jobs Gap in New York City
Víctor M. Torres-Vélez
Successful Pathways to the Teaching Profession for Puerto Ricans
Carmen I. Mercado
Abriendo Caminos: An Analysis of Three Social Work Pathway Initiatives
for Low-wage Puerto Ricans
Anthony De Jesús
Conclusions: Improving the Pathways to Economic Opportunity
Edwin Meléndez and M. Anne Visser
Book Reviews
Contributors
Acknowledgements
