Centro Journal 18, no. 2 (Fall 2006)

IN THIS ISSUE

Making the decolonized visible: Puerto Rican poetry of the last four decades
Pedro López Adorno

¡¿Qué, qué?!—Transculturación and Tato Laviera’s Spanglish poetics
Stephanie Álvarez Martíne

Four decades of Puerto Rican emigration: Different contexts, same realities
Victor C. Simpson

“En mi imperio”: Competing discourses of agency in Ivy Queen’s reggaetón
Jillian M. Báez

Juan Tizol: His talents, his collaborators, his legacy
Basilio Serrano

The war of the flags: Conflicting national loyalties in a modern colonial situation
Juan Manuel Carrión

U.S. Congress and the invisibility of coloniality: The case of Puerto Rico’s political status revisited
Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo

The death penalty in Puerto Rico
Luis Raúl Cámara-Fuerte, José Javier Colón-Morera and Héctor M. Martínez-Ramírez

Playing and eating democracy: The case of Puerto Rico’s land distribution program, 1940s-1960s
Ismael García-Colón

Telecomunicaciones con un propósito
Luis Rosario Albert

Review essays

Taking religion seriously: New perspectives on religion in Puerto Rico
Anthony Stevens-Arroyo

The economic trajectory of Puerto Rico since WWII
Carlos Rodríguez

Book Reviews

Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature 
Edited by John S. Christie and Jose B. Gonzalez 
Reviewed by Elizabeth Garcia 

Who Is White? Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide 
By George Yancey 
Reviewed by Hiram José Irizarry Osorio

Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television 
By Yeidy M. Rivero 
Reviewed by Tomás López-Pumarejo

Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait 

By Edna Acosta-Belén and Carlos E. Santiago 
Reviewed by Angelo Falcón

El sueño que no cesa: la nación deseada en el debate intelectual y político puertorriqueño 1920–1940 

By José Juan Rodríguez Vázquez 
Reviewed byJuan Manuel Carrión

25/4 Julio: conmemorar, festejar, consumir en Puerto Rico 

By María Margarita Flores Collazo 
Reviewed byJohana Londoño

The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Historical Perspectives 

Edited by Carmen Teresa Whalen and Víctor Vásquez-Hernández 
Reviewed by Carlos Sanabria

San Fernando de la Carolina: identidades y representaciones 

By Fernando Picó 
Reviewed by Déborah Berman Santana

Contrapunto de género y raza en Puerto Rico 

Edited by Idsa E. Alegría Ortega and Palmira N. Ríos González 
Reviewed by Milagros Denis

Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico By Magali Roy-Féquière 
Reviewed by Rosa E. Carrasquillo