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SUMMARY:P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Join CENTRO and El Museo del Barrio for the exciting book launch of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance! Through a series of original interviews that include artists like De La Ghetto\, iLe\, Jowell & Randy\, Tainy\, MAG\, and others\, this book traces Bad Bunny’s career from his early days on SoundCloud to the release of DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS in January 2025. This book\, authored by professors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera Rideau and published through Duke University Press\, utilizes Bad Bunny’s body of work and subsequent explosion as a global superstar to provide a deeper analysis of the past thirty years in Puerto Rican politics and history. \n\n\n\nJoin authors Díaz and Rivera-Rideau (creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus”) as they explore Bad Bunny’s place in a long tradition of infusing both joy and protest into music and honor the many evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissed this event? Catch the recording here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Cover Design by Matt Tauch\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative\, and the generous support of the New York City Council.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/p-fkn-r-how-bad-bunny-became-the-global-voice-of-puerto-rican-resistance/
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SUMMARY:Shifting Social Work to Social Justice: Feminism\, Care Work\, and Puerto Rican Women's Community Building
DESCRIPTION:Pivotal Puerto Rican feminist figures like Julia de Burgos\, Yolanda Sanchez\, Antonia Pantoja\, and countless others have laid the groundwork for community-centered activism. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss our upcoming panel with authors Vanessa Pérez-Rosario and Emma Amador as we work to understand and contextualize the stories of women like Burgos\, Sanchez\, and Pantoja and how they overlap in the struggles of national liberation in a patriarchal society. \n\n\n\nPérez-Rosario and Amador’s recent publications\, I Am My Own Path: Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos and The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice help us understand the root of these women’s work and how it’s grounded in a commitment to addressing the high stakes class struggles of women\, migrants\, and people of color. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Social workers / Unas Trabajadoras Sociales | Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS)\, CENTRO Archives\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/shifting-social-work-to-social-justice-feminism-care-work-and-puerto-rican-womens-community-building/
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SUMMARY:ESTA ISLA by Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones Molina
DESCRIPTION:First-ever Puerto Rican film to win a Spirit Award\, ESTA ISLA\, Opens March 20th in theaters in NYC at Village East by Angelika \nWinner of Best Director\, Best Cinematography\, and the Jury Award at the 2025 Tribeca Festival!  \nFilmmaker Q&As with Directors Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones: Friday\, Mar. 20 @ 7:20pm; Saturday\, Mar. 21 @ 7:20pm \nA deeply personal and moving portrait of the Puerto Rican experience\, sharply exploring the complexities of identity\, resilience\, and colonial legacy. Featuring strong performances and striking cinematography\, the debut feature by Lorraine Jones and Cristian Carretero is a powerful exploration of a troubled youth searching for a better future amid a precarious present.   \nBebo\, a teenager from a coastal Puerto Rican town\, lives with his brother in a public housing complex. They fish for a living\, but growing desperation drives them to illegal dealings that promise easy money. When a job goes wrong and blood is spilled\, Bebo flees with Lola\, a wealthy girl seeking to escape her troubled reality. As they navigate the labyrinthine mountains\, they encounter remnants of a fading way of life\, contrasting with the violence that follows them. As hitmen close in\, Bebo must confront his choices and decide if redemption is possible\, or if the sea will be their final escape.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/esta-isla-by-cristian-carretero-lorraine-jones-molina/2026-03-20/1/
LOCATION:Village East by Angelika\, 181-189 2nd Ave\,\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:ESTA ISLA by Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones Molina
DESCRIPTION:First-ever Puerto Rican film to win a Spirit Award\, ESTA ISLA\, Opens March 20th in theaters in NYC at Village East by Angelika \nWinner of Best Director\, Best Cinematography\, and the Jury Award at the 2025 Tribeca Festival!  \nFilmmaker Q&As with Directors Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones: Friday\, Mar. 20 @ 7:20pm; Saturday\, Mar. 21 @ 7:20pm \nA deeply personal and moving portrait of the Puerto Rican experience\, sharply exploring the complexities of identity\, resilience\, and colonial legacy. Featuring strong performances and striking cinematography\, the debut feature by Lorraine Jones and Cristian Carretero is a powerful exploration of a troubled youth searching for a better future amid a precarious present.   \nBebo\, a teenager from a coastal Puerto Rican town\, lives with his brother in a public housing complex. They fish for a living\, but growing desperation drives them to illegal dealings that promise easy money. When a job goes wrong and blood is spilled\, Bebo flees with Lola\, a wealthy girl seeking to escape her troubled reality. As they navigate the labyrinthine mountains\, they encounter remnants of a fading way of life\, contrasting with the violence that follows them. As hitmen close in\, Bebo must confront his choices and decide if redemption is possible\, or if the sea will be their final escape.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/esta-isla-by-cristian-carretero-lorraine-jones-molina/2026-03-20/2/
LOCATION:Village East by Angelika\, 181-189 2nd Ave\,\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Diasporic Puerto Rican Communities in Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Tune in as we explore the Fall 2025 CENTRO Journal on Puerto Rican migration. Recent decades have witnessed economic\, political\, ecological\, and socio-demographic changes that have engulfed Puerto Rico\, with out-migration being a common response to such transformations. While the Puerto Rican diaspora was once concentrated in New York City and Chicago\, Puerto Ricans from the States and the archipelago continue to migrate to non-traditional destinations across the country\, with the current majority residing in Florida. In the last decade\, states like Georgia\, Ohio\, and North Carolina have experienced significant growth in their Puerto Rican population. \n\n\n\nCascading events in the past two decades such as the expiration of Section 936 tax breaks\, a prolonged economic recession\, Puerto Rico’s unaudited debt and the subsequent imposition of the Puerto Rican Fiscal Oversight and Management Control Board (la Junta)\, Hurricanes Irma and Maria\, the earthquakes of 2019–2020\, and the COVID-19 pandemic\, all have contributed to migration. Exploitative labor recruitment of Puerto Ricans from the archipelago by stateside companies continues to draw people away. Concurrently\, the Puerto Rican diaspora has grown\, and Puerto Rican communities have diversified\, though less is known about how Puerto Rican families and communities in the diaspora have become heterogenous through patterns of exogamy\, cultural identities\, regionalism\, social mobility\, and other factors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissed this event? Catch the recording here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Cándida González\, Caldero Familiar\, 2024. Photo credit: Rik Sferra. Mixed media installation of found and altered objects with printed digital collage.\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/diasporic-puerto-rican-communities-in-transformation/
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