
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Volume XXX, Number 1 • Spring 2018
SPECIAL SECTION: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican and Dominicans in the U.S.
Table of Contents
- Beyond Labor Markets and Schools: Community-Based Youth Serving Organizations and the Integration of Puerto Rican and Dominican Disconnected Youth in New York City - M. Anne Visser
- Food Security and Access to “Balanced Meals” among Dominicans and Puerto Ricans in the United States - Melissa Fuster
- Mangú y Mofongo: Inter-ethnic Dominican-Puerto Rican Families and Community Development in New York City - Alaí Reyes-Santos and Ana-Maurine Lara
- Risk Profiles for Suicide Attempts, Drug Use, and Violence among Dominican, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Non-Hispanic White Youth in New York City:Implications for Suicide Prevention Initiatives - Juan B. Peña, Alexis Kuerbis, Rufina Lee and Daniel Herman
- El español y el inglés en Puerto Rico: una polémica de más de un siglo - Melvin González Rivera and Luis A. Ortiz López
- Ana Lydia Vega’s “Pollito chicken”: The Impossible Spanglish - Francisca Aguiló Mora
- The Geography of Bernardo Vega's Memoirs - Angel ‘Monxo’ López Santiago
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Volume XXX, Number 2 • Summer 2018
Revisiting Queer Puerto Rican Sexualities / Revisitando las sexualidades puertorriqueñas queer Guest Editors / Editores Invitados: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION / INTRODUCCIÓN
Revisiting Queer Puerto Rican Sexualities: Queer Futures, Reinventions, and Un-Disciplined Archives - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
The Early Latinx Camp Aesthetics of Pedro Caballero’s Paca Antillana (1931) - Cristina Pérez Jiménez
Clara Gardenia Otero, Palmira Parés y el feminismo queer de Manuel Ramos Otero - Dinorah Cortés-Vélez
Las Isabeles de Rosario Ferré y Manuel Ramos Otero: Modelos de desconstrucción de género y sexualidad en la literatura puertorriqueña de la década del setenta - Tania Carrasquillo Hernández
The Travelling Theater of Manuel Ramos Otero - Carmen Graciela Díaz
INTERVIEW / ENTREVISTA
Translocalizando a la draga: una entrevista inédita de 2002 con el actor y director Jorge B. Merced - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
INTERVIEW / ENTREVISTA
Varones in the Archive: A Queer Oral History Analysis with Two Black Puerto Rican Gay Men - Andrew Viñales
El hijo de Ruby: Memorias de un futuro queer - Anastasia Valecce
Rane Arroyo’s Astronomical Optics in “Solar Constant” - María DeGuzmán
Getting to the Colonial Status through Sexuality: Lessons on Puerto Rico’s Political Predicament from Women Writers - Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo
El activismo queer, feminista y decolonial en la literatura de Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro: por un pensamiento de la Relación - Sophie Large
El cuerpo y la praxis del flujo en la narrativa de Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro - Mónica C. Lladó Ortega
Visibilizando la sexodiversidad: el contrapunteo de la mononormatividad y los poliamores en Violeta de Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro - Elena Valdez
Pussyology - María Teresa “Mariposa” Fernández
Lesbian ‘Growth’ and Epistemic Disobedience: Placing Gabby Rivera’s Juliet Takes a Breath within Puerto Rican Literature and Queer Theory - Consuelo Martínez-Reyes
INTERVIEW / ENTREVISTA
“Can You Imagine?”: Puerto Rican Lesbian Activisms, 1972–1991. - Frances Negrón-Muntaner
“Las ‘Buenas Amigas’” - Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler
Puerto Rican Mothers’ Conversations about Sexual Health with Non-Heterosexual Youth - Leandra Smollin, Josibel C. García Valles, Maria Idalí Torres, and Phillip J. Granberry
INTERVIEW / ENTREVISTA
Del otro la’o: Boricuir Praxis from Mayagüez: An Interview with Lissette Rolón Collazo and Beatriz Llenín Figueroa - Christopher Powers and Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas
“Where’s My Thanks”: The Regulation, Memorialization, and Resistance of Sylvia Rivera in Fictional Stonewall Films - Gabriel Mayora
La lucha por el derecho a ser: una historia de transfobia institucional, 1995-2018 - Joel I. Castro Pérez
REFLECTIONS / REFLEXIONES
Recent Developments in Queer Puerto Rican History, Politics, and Culture - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Volume XXX Number 3 • Fall 2018
Puerto Rico Post-Hurricane Maria: Origins and Consequences of a Crisis
Guest Editor: Edwin Meléndez and Charles R. Venator-Santiago
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION / INTRODUCCIÓN
Introduction to Puerto Rico Post-Maria: Origins and Consequences of a Crisis
Edwin Meléndez and Charles R. Venator-Santiago
IRS Section 936 and the Decline of Puerto Rico’s Manufacturing
Zadia M. Feliciano
The Politics of PROMESA
Edwin Meléndez
The Economics of PROMESA
Edwin Meléndez
An Analysis of Puerto Rico’s Debt Relief Needs to Restore Debt Sustainability
Pablo Gluzmann, Martin Guzman and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Energy Policies in Puerto Rico and their Impact on the Likelihood of a Resilient and Sustainable Electric Power Infrastructure
Efraín O’Neill-Carrillo and Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones
Cabotage as an External Non-tariff Measure on the Competitiveness on SIDS’s Agribusinesses: The Case of Puerto Rico
William Suárez II
Migration, Geographic Destinations, and Socioeconomic Outcomes of Puerto Ricans during La Crisis Boricua: Implications for Island and Stateside Communities Post-Maria
Marie T. Mora, Alberto Dávila and Havidán Rodríguez
Two Sides of the Coin of Puerto Rican Migration: Depopulation in Puerto Rico and the Revival of the Diaspora
Jennifer Hinojosa
Después del Huracán: Using a Diaspora Framework to Contextualize and Problematize Educational Responses Post-María
Jason G. Irizarry, Rosalie Rolón-Dow and Isar P. Godreau
Political Crisis, Migration and Electoral Behavior in Puerto Rico
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
Territorial Incorporation: A Note on the History of Territorial Incorporation Bills for Puerto Rico, 1898–2017
Charles R. Venator-Santiago