Centro Journal 20, no. 2 (Fall 2008)
IN THIS ISSUE
Slippery semantics: Race talk and everyday uses of racial terminology in Puerto Rico
Isar P. Godreau
De la disco al caserío : Urban spatial aesthetics and policy to the beat of reggaetón
Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores
Deluxe squatters in Puerto Rico: The case of La Parguera’s casetas
Rima Brusi-Gil de Lamadrid
Entrevista a Fernando Picó
Marisa Pérez Domínguez
Celebrating the colonial nation in San Germán’s Patron Saint Festivities, 1950s
Antonio Sotomayor-Carlo
The Development Bank and the initial failure of the industrial program in Puerto Rico, 1942–1948
José L. Bolivar
Usmaíl: Pedro Juan Soto’s classic Vieques novel: An interview with Charley Connelly and Myrna Pagán
Katherine T. McCaffrey
Ernesto Quiñonez’s fiction seen as a picaresque narrative
Ignacio F. Rodeño Iturriaga
La otra cara de la historia y el teatro popular puertorriqueño: El Tajo del Alacrán de Lydia Milagros González
Carlos Manuel Rivera
An astounding treasure: Dual language education in a public school setting
Susana C. DeJesús
DIÁLOGO: The mtDNA debate: A diálogo on “How important is it?”
Amerindian mtDNA in Puerto Rico: When does DNA matter?
Jorge Estevez
Amerindian mtDNA does not matter: A reply to Jorge Estevez and the privileging of a Taíno identity in the Spanish Caribbean
Gabriel Haslip-Viera
BOOK REVIEWS:
Latina Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the United States
Edited by Jill Denner and Bianca Guzman
Reviewed by Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas
Puerto Rican Poetry, An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
Edited and Translated by Roberto Márquez
Reviewed by Alan West-Durán
Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States
By José Ramón Sánchez
Reviewed by Aldo Lauria Santiago
Extended Statehood in the Caribbean: Paradoxes of Quasi Colonialism, Local Autonomy and Extended Statehood in the USA, French, Dutch and British Caribbean
Edited by Lammert de Jong and Dirk Kruijt
Reviewed by Aarón Gamaliel Ramos
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States & the Philippines
By Paul A. Kramer
Reviewed by Lanny Thompson
Barganing for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City
By Nicole P. Marwell
Reviewed by José Ramón Sánchez
Spanish Harlem’s Musical Legacy: 1930–1980
By Silvio H. Alava
Reviewed by José E. Cruz
His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.
By Geraldo Rivera
Reviewed by Howard Jordan
Los bembeteos de la plena puertorriqueña
By Ramón López
Reviewed by Melanie Maldonado
Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails
By Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé
Reviewed by Juana María Rodríguez
¡Que el pueblo decida!: La gobernación de Roberto Sánchez Vilella
By Ligia T. Domench Abreu
Reviewed by Ángel Israel Rivera Ortiz