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 the Wound in Puerto Rico’s Turbulent 1950s
Juan Diego Mariátegui
James Baldwin’s Encounter With El Caño Martín Peña in If Beale Street Could Talk
Michael Reyes Salas
Unintended Consequences of the Largest (Austerity-Driven) School Consolidation
on Academic Achievement
José Caraballo-Cueto
Representations of Puerto Rican Identity and Agency in Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico
Sally J. Delgado, Carmen González González, Shalimar M. Pomales García, Natalia S. Rivera Pagán, Valeria M. Flores Figueroa, Paola Rivera Martínez, and Yaixanette Sierra Rivera
Forced Commodifications of Deservingness: A Teacher’s Tragedy and Triumph with Hurricane María
Lisa Ortiz-Guzmán
Política poética de un manifiesto de amor: La querencia de Ánjelamaría Dávila
Dania Abreu-Torres
ART EXHIBIT REVIEW
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
Reviewed by Mercedes Trelles Hernández
RESEÑAS DE LIBROS / BOOK REVIEWS
Affect, Archive, Archipelago: Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives, by Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa
Reviewed by Maritza Stanchich
Smoker beyond the Sea: The Story of Puerto Rican Tobacco, by Juan José Baldrich
Reviewed by Ismael García-Colón
The “Puerto Rican Problem” in Postwar New York City, by Edgardo Meléndez
Reviewed by Andrés Torres