Orgullo Film Series: Session One--Artists and Athletes from the Puerto Rican Diaspora The Center for Puerto Rican Studies’ Puerto Rican Heritage Cultural Ambassador Program presents a two part film series of exciting short documentaries highlighting the contributions of individuals, groups and organizations that have had a profound impact on the Puerto Rican experience in the […]
Carmen I. Mercado draws on four decades of seminal research and theory on how American children, who come from homes where languages other than English are spoken, learn to read and to write in school to reveal aspects of locally-responsive planning and adaptations that should be central to any teacher education program that hopes to […]
You are invited to the 2019 Aronson Awards where we recognize the best in social justice journalism that informs and thereby empowers the public. Winning journalists will discuss their inspiration and the challenges of reporting their stories at a free public presentation at the Silberman School of Social Work, 2180 Third Avenue (Corner of 119th […]
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies’ Puerto Rican Heritage Cultural Ambassador Program presents the second part of a two part film series of exciting short documentaries highlighting the contributions of individuals, groups and organizations that have had a profound impact on the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Session Two highlights the illustrious legacy […]
Season four of Centro’s Puerto Rican Voices TV show, Rebuild Puerto Rico, highlights the role of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the reconstruction of the Island. Images of the devastation caused by hurricanes Irma and Maria activated humanitarian responses by stateside civic leaders and organizations. Many of those same entities have partnered with organizations in […]
This book philosophically rethinks the history of colonization by focusing of the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the 15th and 16th centuries in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean at large, and how these ideas were deployed globally.. Author: Carlos Rivera Santana, Research Associate, Centro Commentator: Linda Alcoff, Philosophy Department, […]
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century. The Farm Labor Program, established by the government of Puerto Rico in 1947, placed hundreds of thousands of migrant workers on U.S. farms and fostered the emergence […]
Patria examines the activities and ideals of Puerto Rican revolutionaries exiles in New York City at the end of the nineteenth century. The study is centered in the writings, news reports, and announcements by and about Puerto Ricans in the newspaper Patria, of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. The book looks at the political, organizational and […]
Centro: Center for Puerto Rican Studies Cultural Ambassador Program presents Cucarachita Martina’s Musical Adventure. Webinar will premiere the animated short with caregiver and teacher’s guides and an overview of Pura Belpré’s exhibit from the archives. This event is highly recommended for educators pre-K through 16. This new animated short is inspired by Pura Belpré’s first […]
Puerto Rican women were not only present in early jazz, but they played trailblazing and innovative roles and contributed to the emergence of the genre in the States and abroad. Serrano documents the success and achievement of several Puerto Rican women from the jazz age, as well as a brief discussion on current Puerto Rican […]
