CENTRO Journal

Centro Journal 11, no. 1 (Fall 1999) IN THIS ISSUE 1898-1998, Part 2 The Promise and Disillusion of Americanization: Surveying the Socio-Economic Terrain of Early Twentieth century Puerto RicoLillian Guerra … Continued

Centro Journal 11, no. 2 (Spring 2000) IN THIS ISSUE Indigenous Hawaiians Under Statehood: Lessons for Puerto RicoJosé Luis Morín Género y Nacionalismo: Los discursos de oposición a la esterilización … Continued

Centro Journal 12, no. 1 (Fall 2000) IN THIS ISSUE Speaking English in Puerto Rico: The Impact of Affluence, Education and Return MigrationAmílcar Antonio Barreto Bitextualidad y bilingüismo: reflexiones sobre … Continued

Centro Journal 13, no. 1 (Spring 2001) IN THIS ISSUE Conquering Categories: The Problem of Pre-History in Nineteenth Century Puerto Rico and CubaChristopher Schimidt-Nowara From Sugar Plantations to Military Bases: … Continued

Centro Journal 13, no. 2 (Fall 2001) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Ricans in Chicago Introduction: Puerto Ricans in ChicagoGina M. Pérez Paseo Boricua: Claiming a Puerto Rican Space in ChicagoNilda … Continued

Centro Journal 14, no. 1 (Spring 2002) IN THIS ISSUE Masculinidad hegemónica, sexualidad y transgresiónRafael L. Ramírez y Víctor I. García Toro Pop Latinidad: Puerto Ricans in the Latin Explosion, … Continued

Centro Journal 14, no. 2 (Fall 2002) IN THIS ISSUE Colonial Figures in Motion: Globalization and Translocality in Contemporary Puerto Rican Literature in the United StatesArnaldo Cruz-Malavé Spiritists versus Spirit-mongers: … Continued

Centro Journal 15, no. 1 (Spring 2003) IN THIS ISSUE IntroductionJose E. Cruz, Guest Editor Puerto Rican Politics in the United States: Examination of Major Perspectives and TheoriesEdgardo Meléndez The … Continued

Centro Journal 15, no. 2 (Fall 2003) IN THIS ISSUE Sirena Selena: A Novel for the New Millenium and for New Critical Practices in Puerto Rican Cultural StudiesAlberto Sandoval Sánchez … Continued

Centro Journal 16, no. 1 (Spring 2004) IN THIS ISSUE Special Issue: Puerto Rican Music and Dance: RicanStructing Roots/Routes, Part IJuan Flores and Wilson A. Valentín-Escobar PrefaceJuan Flores and Wilson … Continued

Centro Journal 16, no. 2 (Fall 2004) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Rican Music and Dance: Rican Structing Roots/Routes, Part IIGuest Editors Juan Flores and Wilson A. Valentín-Escobar PrefaceJuan Flores and … Continued

Centro Journal 17, no. 1 (Spring 2005) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Rican Music and Dance: Rican Structing Roots/Routes, Part II Technologies: Transculturations of race, gender and ethnicity in Arturo A. … Continued

Centro Journal 17, no. 2 (Fall 2005) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Rican Visual artists and the United States.Guest Editor Yasmin Ramírez IntroductionYasmin Ramírez Aesthetics of Exile: The construction of Nuyorican … Continued

Centro Journal 18, no. 1 (Spring 2006) IN THIS ISSUE Military Legacies and Popular Struggle in Vieques.Guest Editor Katherine T. McCaffrey IntroductionKatherine T. McCaffrey The Cold War and the second … Continued

Centro Journal 18, no. 2 (Fall 2006) IN THIS ISSUE Making the decolonized visible: Puerto Rican poetry of the last four decadesPedro López Adorno ¡¿Qué, qué?!—Transculturación and Tato Laviera’s Spanglish … Continued

Centro Journal 19, no. 1 (Spring 2007) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Rican Queer SexualitiesGuest Editors: Luis Aponte-Parés, Jossianna Arroyo, Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Frances Negrón-Muntane Puerto Rican Queer Sexualities: … Continued

Centro Journal 19, no. 2 (Fall 2007) IN THIS ISSUE Special Section: The Education of the Puerto Rican Diaspora: Challenges, Dilemas, and Possibilities Guest Editors: Anthony De Jesús and Rosalie Rolón-Dow … Continued

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IN THIS ISSUE OUT OF PRINTEducation Explaining Puerto Rican PovertyAndrés Torres Hostos Community College and the Puerto Rican Struggle for Equity in EducationCarlos Rodríguez-Fraticelli The Turbulent Progress of Puerto Ricans … Continued

IN THIS ISSUE OUT OF PRINTPuerto Rican Culture Tato Laviera y Alurista: Hacia una poética bilingüeFrancis R. Aparicio POETS IN PROFILERobert Ortiz Melendez Bumbún and the Beginnings of Plena Juan Flores … Continued

IN THIS ISSUE OUT OF PRINT A Community At Risk: The Health of Puerto Ricans AIDS and the Latino CommunityEmilio Carrillo A Community At Risk: Puerto Ricans and Health, East … Continued

IN THIS ISSUE OUT OF PRINT“Politics in the Puerto Rican Community“ Ciencia y política en la lucha ambientalNeftalí García Puerto Ricans in New York: A Historical and Community Development PerspectiveAntonia … Continued

Centro 16th Anniversary Issue Puerto Rican Studies in the 1990s: Taking the Next Turn in the RoadJesse M. Vázquez Higher Education Task ForceCarlos Rodríguez-Fraticelli Puerto Ricans in CUNY: Twenty Years After Open … Continued

OUT OF PRINTPuerto Rican Women as Writers and Workers La mujer en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIXOlga Jiménez Wagenheim Notas sobre el desarrollo de la industria del tabaco en … Continued

OUT OF PRINTLatino Film and Video Images From Assimilation to Annihilation: Puerto Rican Images in U.S. FilmsRichie Pérez From the Margin to the Center: Puerto Rican Cinema in the United StatesLillian Jiménez … Continued

Centro Journal 20, no. 1 (Spring 2008) IN THIS ISSUE Special Section: Functions and valorization of language in Puerto RicoGuest Editor:Alicia Pousada Functions and valorization of language in Puerto Rico: … Continued

Centro Journal 20, no. 2 (Fall 2008) IN THIS ISSUE Slippery semantics: Race talk and everyday uses of racial terminology in Puerto RicoIsar P. Godreau De la disco al caserío : … Continued

Centro Journal 21, no. 1 (Spring 2009) IN THIS ISSUE Table of ContentsEssays: Resisting the Racial Binary? Puerto Ricans’ Encounter with Race in Depression-Era New York City—Lorrin Thomas Changed Identities: … Continued

Centro Journal 21, no. 2 (Fall 2009) IN THIS ISSUE Activism an d Change among Puerto Ricans in New York, 1960s and 1970sGuest Editors: Xavier F. Totti and Félix V. … Continued

Centro Journal 22, no. 1 (Spring 2010) IN THIS ISSUE SPECIAL ISSUE: PUERTO RICAN FLORIDAGuest Editors: Jorge Duany and Patricia Silver The “Puerto Ricanization” of Florida: Historical Background and Current … Continued

Centro Journal 22, no. 2 (Fall 2010) IN THIS ISSUE Polémicas, feministas, puertorriqueñas y desconocidas: Clotilde Betances Jaeger, María Mas Pozo y sus “charlas femeninas” en el Gráfico de Nueva … Continued

Centro Journal 23, no. 1 (Spring 2011) IN THIS ISSUE Essays: Central Park Rumba: Nuyorican Identity and The Return to African Roots Berta Jottar Pidieron cacao: Latinidad and Black Identity in … Continued

Centro Journal 23, no. 2 (Fall 2011) IN THIS ISSUE PATHWAYS TO ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY Table of Contents Guest Editors: Edwin Meléndez Puerto Ricans in the U.S. Low-Wage Labor Market:Introduction to … Continued

Centro Journal 24, no. 1 (Spring 2012) IN THIS ISSUE The Antifoundational Foundational Fiction of Piri Thomas (1928-2012)Arnalda Cruz-Malave Slipping and Sliding: The Many Meanings of Race in Life Histories … Continued

Centro Journal 24, no. 2 (Fall 2012) IN THIS ISSUE Introduction to the Special IssueJosé Luis Morín Residential Segregation, Socioeconomic Status, and Disability: A Multi-Level Study of Puerto Ricans in … Continued

Centro Journal 25, no. 1 (Spring 2013) IN THIS ISSUE SPECIAL SECTION: Puerto Rico, the United States and the Making of a Bounded CitizenshipGUEST EDITOR: PEDRO CABÁN The Puerto Rican … Continued

Centro Journal 25, no. 2 (Fall 2013) IN THIS ISSUE ESSAYS Julia de Burgos’ Writing for Pueblos Hispanos: Journalism as Puerto Rican Cultural and Political Transnational PracticeVanessa Pérez-Rosario The Chicago … Continued

Centro Journal 26, no. 1 (Spring 2014) IN THIS ISSUE Table of Contents Guest Editor / Editor Invitado : Nicolás Kanellos Introducción / Nicolás Kanellos Lola Rodríguez de Tió o el … Continued

Centro Journal 26, no. 2 (Fall 2014) IN THIS ISSUE SPECIAL ISSUE: Untendered eyes: Literary Politics of Julia de BurgosGuest Editor / Editora invitada: Lena Burgos Lafuente Table of Contents … Continued

Centro Journal 27, no. 1 (Spring 2015) IN THIS ISSUE Table of Contents The Look of Sovereignty: Style and Politics in the Young LordsFrances Negrón-Muntaner Put a Sticker on It: … Continued

Centro Journal 27, no. 2 (Fall 2015) IN THIS ISSUE Table of Contents Puerto Ricans and Transnationalism: A Critical Empirical AssessmentCarlos Vargas-Ramos Puerto Rican Migration, the Colonial State, and TransnationalismEdgardo … Continued

Centro Journal 28, no. 1 (Spring 2016) IN THIS ISSUE Counterstreaming: Measuring the Impact of Cultural Remittances. Essays in Honor of Juan Flores.Guest Editors: Carlos Garrido Castellano and Laura Bravo … Continued

Centro Journal 28, no. 2 (Fall 2016) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Rican Chicago RevisitedGuest Editors: Maura Toro-Morn, Ivis García Zambrana and Marisa Alicea Table of Contents INTRODUCCIÓN / INTRODUCTION De … Continued

Centro Journal 29, no. 1 (Spring 2017) IN THIS ISSUE U.S. Citizenship in Puerto Rico: One Hundred Years After the Jones ActGuest Editors: Charles R. Venator-Santiago and Edgardo Meléndez Table … Continued

Centro Journal 29, no. 2 (Summer 2017) IN THIS ISSUE Table of Contents Sunshine Politics: Puerto Rican Memory and the Political in New DestinationsPatricia Silver Puerto Rican Language Use on … Continued

Centro Journal 29, no. 3 (Fall 2017) IN THIS ISSUE Special Section: Grounding Puerto Ricans in PlaceGuest Edited by William Vélez Table of Contents Grounding Puerto Ricans in Place:Introduction by … Continued

IN THIS ISSUE Latinos and the MediaPuerto Ricans and the Media: A Personal StatementBlanca Vázquez Mass Media in Puerto RicoFederico Subervi-Vélez et al. The Origins of the Consumer Culture in Puerto … Continued

Centro Journal 3, no. 2 (Spring 1991) IN THIS ISSUE Música: Alma del Pueblo Editorial Cortijo’s RevengeJuan Flores The Backstage View: Musicians Piece Together a LivingRuth Glasser La Plena Puertorriqueña: … Continued

Centro Journal 30, no. 1 (Fall 2018) IN THIS ISSUE SPECIAL SECTION: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican and Dominicans in the U.S. Table of Contents Beyond Labor Markets and Schools: … Continued

Centro Journal 30, no. 2 (Spring 2018) IN THIS ISSUE Revisiting Queer Puerto Rican Sexualities / Revisitando las sexualidades puertorriqueñas queer Guest Editors / Editores Invitados: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes and Yolanda … Continued

Centro Journal 30, no. 3 (Summer 2018) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Rico Post-Hurricane Maria: Origins and Consequences of a CrisisGuest Editor: Edwin Meléndez and Charles R. Venator-Santiago Table of Contents … Continued

Centro Journal 31, no. 1 (Fall 2019) IN THIS ISSUE A Specific Beauty: Pablo Delano’s Photography in New York City, Hartford, and Santurce / Guillermo B. Irizarry Adjustment Challenges: Puerto Ricans … Continued

Centro Journal 31, no. 2 (Spring 2019) IN THIS ISSUE Special Issue / Número Especial Puerto Rican Bomba: Syncopating Bodies, Histories, and Geographies /Bomba puertorriqueña: sincopando cuerpos, historias y geografías … Continued

Centro Journal 31, no. 3 (Summer 2019) IN THIS ISSUE Erasing Race: Translating Out the “Afro” in René Marqués’s La carreta/The Oxcart / J. Bret Maney Building Puerto Rico’s Anti-Colonial Literary Canon: … Continued

IN THIS ISSUE Articles Revisiting Puerto Rico’s Nineteenth-Century Sugar-and-Slavery History | Francisco Scarano Disrupting Colonial Identity: Puerto Rican Subjectivities in Cultural Essays | Cristina Esteves-Wolff Sobre la “peleíta monga” en … Continued

IN THIS ISSUE Special Issue: Post-Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico and Local ParticipationGuest Editor: Edwin Meléndez Articles Post-Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico and Local Participation: IntroductionEdwin Meléndez Entrepreneurial Dynamics in … Continued

IN THIS ISSUE Articles New York, Puerto Rico and Cuba’s Latin Music Scenes and the Emergence of Salsa Music: A Comparative Analysis by Omar Ruiz Vega Representaciones sonoras: masculinidades y … Continued

IN THIS ISSUE SPECIAL ISSUE: Navigating Insecurity: Crisis, Power, and Protest in Puerto Rican CommunitiesGuest editors: Aldo Lauria Santiago and Charles Venator-Santiago Articles Navigating Insecurity: Crisis, Power, and Protest in … Continued

IN THIS ISSUE Essays Book reviews

IN THIS ISSUE Articles Nuyorican mestizaje or la gran familia neorriqueña in Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets, by Marissa L. Ambio Reinvigorating Puerto Rico’s Pharmaceutical Industry: A U.S. Security … Continued

CENTRO Journal | Summer 2022 | Volume 34 | Number 2 SPECIAL ISSUE. Beyond Corruption: From Colonial Practices to Emancipatory Futures Editores invitados / Guest Editors: José Atiles, Gustavo A. … Continued

SPECIAL ISSUE: Back to the future: The Implications of Balzac One Hundred Years Later Editores invitados / Guest Editors: Charles R. Venator-Santiago and José Javier Colón Morera The year 2022 … Continued

CENTRO Journal: Fall 2022 | Volume 34 | Number 3 ENSAYOS / ESSAYS Documentary Heritage at Risk: Puerto Rican Public Records in the Social Media Age and the Frailty of … Continued

SPECIAL ISSUE. Beyond Corruption: From Colonial Practices to Emancipatory Futures Editores invitados / Guest Editors: José Atiles, Gustavo A. García López, and Joaquín Villanueva ENSAYOS / ESSAYS Introduction Beyond Corruption … Continued

CENTRO Journal | Summer 2023 | Volume 35 | Number 2 SPECIAL ISSUE. ¡Vivas nos queremos! The Femicide and Gender Violence Epidemic in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora Editoras invitadas / Guest … Continued

SPECIAL ISSUE. Centering Environmental, Ecological, Climate, and Energy Justice in Puerto Rico’s Social Justice Praxis  Editores invitados / Guest Editors: Hilda Lloréns, Carlos G. García-Quijano, Catalina de Onís, and Ruth Santiago ENSAYOS … Continued

Centro Journal 4, no. 1 (Winter 1991) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Rican History and Politics #1 The Work of Juan Sánchez:Gladys Jiménez-Muñoz La forja de un líder: Pedro Albizu Campos, … Continued

Centro Journal 4, no. 2 (Spring 1992) IN THIS ISSUE Smoke and Ash: A Latino Writer Looks Back at the 1992 Los Angeles UprisingLuis J. Rodríguez Dancing with Colonialism: The … Continued

Centro Journal 5, no. 1 (Winter 1992-93) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Rican Youth and Youth Culture #1 “We Know What Time It Is”: Youth Culture in the 90sGeorge Lipsitz “Puerto … Continued

Centro Journal 5, no. 2 (Spring 1992-93) IN THIS ISSUE Puerto Rican Youth and Youth Culture #2 Going Up in L.A.Rubén Martínez The Language of Memorial MuralsGreg Pomales PORTFOLIOFrank Gimpaya … Continued

Centro Journal 6, no. 1 & 2 (Spring 1994) IN THIS ISSUE OUT OF PRINTPuerto Ricans & AIDS: It’s Time to Act! Trends in AIDS Mortality Rates Among Residents of Puerto … Continued

Centro Journal 7, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 1994-95) IN THIS ISSUE Future Directions in Puerto Rican Studies What’s Yellow and White and Has Land All Around It? Appropriating Place in Puerto … Continued

Centro Journal 8, no. 1 & 2 (1996) IN THIS ISSUE Race and Identity Un hombre (negro) del pueblo: José Barbosa and the Puerto Rican ‘Race’ Toward WhitenessMiriam Jiménez Román … Continued

Centro Journal 9, no. 1 (Winter 1996- 97) IN THIS ISSUE The Education of Puerto Ricans Dangerous Discourses: Language Politics and Classroom Practices in Upstate New YorkEllen Bigler The Study … Continued

CENTRO JOURNAL FALL 2023 | VOLUME 35 | NUMBER 3 Obligados a olvidar: Settlement and Displacement in 20th Century San Juan, Puerto Rico Elena Vanasse Torres Rent Flesh and the Social Fabric: Poetics of … Continued

In a time where the humanities, ethnic studies, books, and even knowledge itself are being banned, regulated, and attacked, it is essential for us to consider how necessary it is … Continued

The AfroCENTRO Reader: Revisiting Black Puerto Rican Scholarship The AfroCENTRO Reader was conceived as an accompanying piece to the spring 2025 special issue of CENTRO Journal, which is titled Water … Continued