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CENTRO JOURNAL SPRING 2025 • VOLUME XXXVII • NUMBER 1
WATER PROOF: OLAS DE MEMORIA
GUEST EDITORS: Sarah Bruno, Essah Díaz, Daniel Morales-Armstrong, and Jessica Marie Johnson
Introduction: Entre aguas/Between the Waters
Sarah Bruno, Essah Díaz, Daniel Morales-Armstrong, and Jessica Marie Johnson
Recuerdo: Blackness, Memory, and the Racial Contract in Puerto Rico
Shantee Rosado
Colorismo en la educación: colonialidad y blanqueamiento en textos escolares
Isar Godreau, Mariluz Franco Ortiz, Gabriela Ortiz Laureano, Andrea M. Texidor Cintrón, and Rafael Capó
Pioneers in Their Own Right: Afro-Puerto Ricans at Tuskegee Normal School and Howard University
Milagros Denis-Rosario
Cimarrones, Rebels, and Plaintiffs: Strategies Enslaved Africans and their Descendants Used to Resist Slavery in Puerto Rico (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
Daniel Morales-Armstrong
Forging Afro-Diasporic Bonds: Black Feminist Worldmaking After the Storm in the Greater Caribbean (1965-2017)
Kiana González Cedeño, Lauren Prince, Anais Couvertier, and Teona Williams
Lessons in the Water: Late Nineteenth Century Afro-Puerto Rican Survival and Ancestral Memory
Ashley Coleman Taylor
Painting Rematriation: Reflections from Year Ten in Borikén
Yasmín Hernández
BOOK REVIEWS
Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades, by Regina Marie Mills
Reviewed by Rebeca L. Hey-Colón
La otra Julia, by Mayra Santos Febres
Reviewed by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole: An Aurora Levins Morales Reader, by Aurora Levins Morales
Reviewed by Jessica N. Pabón-Colón
Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, by Alberto Ortiz Díaz
Reviewed by Caroline Parker