When I Was Puerto Rican

  when i was puerto rican: When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago, 2006-02-28 One of The Best Memoirs of a Generation (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.
  when i was puerto rican: When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago, 2006-02-28 Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.
  when i was puerto rican: Almost a Woman Esmeralda Santiago, 2012-06-12 Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a balance between becoming American and staying Puerto Rican. While translating for her mother Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York’s prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she begins to defy her mother’s protective rules, only to find that independence brings new dangers and dilemmas.
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  when i was puerto rican: When I was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago, 2020 [The author's] story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her warring parents and seven siblings led a life of uproar, but one full of love and tenderness as well. Growing up, Esmeralda learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of the tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But just when Esmeralda seemed to have learned everything, she was taken to New York City, where the rules - and the language - were bewilderingly different. How Esmeralda overcame adversity, won acceptance to New York City's High School of Performing Arts, and then went on to Harvard, where she graduated with highest honors, is a record of a tremendous journey by a truly remarkable woman.-BooksInPrint.
  when i was puerto rican: When I was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago, 1993 [The author's] story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her warring parents and seven siblings led a life of uproar, but one full of love and tenderness as well. Growing up, Esmeralda learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of the tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But just when Esmeralda seemed to have learned everything, she was taken to New York City, where the rules - and the language - were bewilderingly different. How Esmeralda overcame adversity, won acceptance to New York City's High School of Performing Arts, and then went on to Harvard, where she graduated with highest honors, is a record of a tremendous journey by a truly remarkable woman.-BooksInPrint.
  when i was puerto rican: Conquistadora Esmeralda Santiago, 2012-07-10 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the award-winning, bestselling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. • “Santiago’s storytelling is thrilling.... A triumph.” —The Washington Post As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just eighteen, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the Civil War breaks out in the United States, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own. And when at last Ana falls for a man who may be her destiny—a once-forbidden love—she will sacrifice nearly everything to keep hold of the land that has become her true home. This is a sensual, riveting tale, set in a place where human passions and cruelties collide: thrilling history that has never before been brought so vividly and unforgettably to life.
  when i was puerto rican: América's Dream Esmeralda Santiago, 2009-10-13 América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her In the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as alive-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Yet even as América revels in the comparative luxury of her new life, daring to care about a man other than Correa, she is faced with dramatic proof that no matter what she does, she can't get away from her past.
  when i was puerto rican: The Turkish Lover Esmeralda Santiago, 2009-03-17 Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to elope into the spell of an exotic love affair. At the heart of the story is Esmeralda's relationship with the Turk, a passion that gradually becomes a prison out of which she must emerge to become herself. The expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage that made Esmeralda's first two books so successful are on full display again in The Turkish Lover.
  when i was puerto rican: When I Was Puerto Rican Santiago Esmeralda, 2014-07-01 Riveting.--Booklist, starred review
  when i was puerto rican: When a Heart Turns Rock Solid Timothy Black, 2009-08-04 A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.
  when i was puerto rican: The Puerto Rican Syndrome Patricia Gherovici, 2003-11-17 Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress behaved in a very peculiar and dramatic manner, exhibiting a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. Startled physicians observed frightened and disoriented patients foaming at the mouth, screaming, biting, kicking, shaking in seizures, and fainting. The phenomenon seemed to correspond to a serious neurological disease yet, as with some forms of hysteria, physical examination failed to identify any sign of an organic origin. This unusual set of symptoms, entered into medical records as a group of striking psychopathological reaction patterns, precipitated by minor stress, and was designated Puerto Rican Syndrome. In this lucid and sophisticated new work, Patricia Gherovici thoroughly examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome in the contemporary world, its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the US and, therefore, for the US as a whole. As a mental illness that is, allegedly, uniquely Puerto Rican, this syndrome links nationality and culture to a psychiatric disease whose reappearance recalls the spectacular hysteria that led to the discovery of the unconscious and the birth of psychoanalysis. Gherovici beautifully and systematically uses the combined insights of Freud and Lacan to examine the current state of psychoanalysis and the Hispanic community in America. Blending these insights with history, current events, and her own case material, Gherovici provides a startling, fresh look at Puerto Rican Syndrome as social and cultural phenomenon. She sheds new light on the future of American society and argues that psychoanalysis is not only possible, but much needed in the ghetto.
  when i was puerto rican: Coconuts & Collards Von Diaz, 2018 When her family moved from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Von Diaz traded plantains, roast pork, and malta for grits, fried chicken, and sweet tea. Brimming with humor and nostalgia, Coconuts and Collards is a recipe-packed memoir of growing up Latina in the Deep South. Inspired by her grandmother's 1962 copy of Cocina Criolla--the Puerto Rican equivalent of the Joy of Cooking--Coconuts and Collards celebrates traditional recipes while fusing them with Diaz's own family history and a contemporary Southern flair. Diaz discovers the connections between the food she grew up eating in Atlanta and the African and indigenous influences in so many Puerto Rican dishes. With stunning photographs that showcase the geographic diversity of the island and the vibrant ingredients that make up Puerto Rican cuisine, this cookbook is a moving story about discovering our roots through the foods that comfort us. It is about the foods that remind us of family and help us bridge childhood and adulthood, island and mainland, birthplace and adopted home.--[page 166]
  when i was puerto rican: When I Was Puerto Rican Novel Units Teacher Guide Novel Units, Pat Watson, 2019-07-15 Suggests activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago.
  when i was puerto rican: Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire Ismael García-Colón, 2020-02-18 Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century. The Farm Labor Program, established by the government of Puerto Rico in 1947, placed hundreds of thousands of migrant workers on U.S. farms and fostered the emergence of many stateside Puerto Rican communities. Ismael García-Colón investigates the origins and development of this program and uncovers the unique challenges faced by its participants. A labor history and an ethnography, Colonial Migrants evokes the violence, fieldwork, food, lodging, surveillance, and coercion that these workers experienced on farms and conveys their hopes and struggles to overcome poverty. Island farmworkers encountered a unique form of prejudice and racism arising from their dual status as both U.S. citizens and as “foreign others,” and their experiences were further shaped by evolving immigration policies. Despite these challenges, many Puerto Rican farmworkers ultimately chose to settle in rural U.S. communities, contributing to the production of food and the Latinization of the U.S. farm labor force.
  when i was puerto rican: Now We Will Be Happy Amina Gautier, 2014-09-01 Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines Puerto Rican identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one. The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn’t seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurricane; a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles. Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.
  when i was puerto rican: When We Make It Elisabet Velasquez, 2022-08-30 The energy. The clarity. The beauty. Elisabet Velasquez brings it all. . . . Her voice is FIRE!—NYT bestselling and award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to make it,” for readers of Nicholasa Mohr and Elizabeth Acevedo. Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican question asker who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister, Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has long been denied. When We Make It is a love letter to anyone who was taught to believe that they would not make it. To those who feel their emotions before they can name them. To those who still may not have all the language but they have their story. Velasquez’ debut novel is sure to leave an indelible mark on all who read it.
  when i was puerto rican: Feminism 3 Irene Zahava, 2019-04-10 This book is a collection of short stories by third generation feminists, covering major issues in a young woman's life: awakening sexuality, biological and psychological landmarks, family rejection and rebellion, child abduction and abuse, gender identification, and sexual harassment.
  when i was puerto rican: A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches Jesús Colón, 1982 Stories about the experiences of Puerto Ricans in New York.
  when i was puerto rican: Puerto Rican Chicago Mirelsie Velazquez, 2022-02-01 The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velázquez tells how Chicago's Puerto Ricans pursued their educational needs in a society that constantly reminded them of their status as second-class citizens. Communities organized a media culture that addressed their concerns while creating and affirming Puerto Rican identities. Education also offered women the only venue to exercise power, and they parlayed their positions to take lead roles in activist and political circles. In time, a politicized Puerto Rican community gave voice to a previously silenced group--and highlighted that colonialism does not end when immigrants live among their colonizers. A perceptive look at big-city community building, Puerto Rican Chicago reveals the links between justice in education and a people's claim to space in their new home.
  when i was puerto rican: War Against All Puerto Ricans Nelson A Denis, 2015-04-07 The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says could not be more timely. In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens. Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the controversial life of Pedro Albizu Campos, who served as the president of the Nationalist Party. A lawyer, chemical engineer, and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School, Albizu Campos was imprisoned for twenty-five years and died under mysterious circumstances. By tracing his life and death, Denis shows how the journey of Albizu Campos is part of a larger story of Puerto Rico and US colonialism. Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico's history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. Denis provides an unflinching account of the gunfights, prison riots, political intrigue, FBI and CIA covert activity, and mass hysteria that accompanied this tumultuous period in Puerto Rican history.
  when i was puerto rican: Uselessness Eduardo Lalo, 2017-10-11 Eduardo Lalo is a writer, essayist, and artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. His many books include the award-winning novel Simone, which we published in translation. Suzanne Jill Levine is a leading translator of Latin American literature who runs the translation doctoral program at UCSB. A tale of social, spiritual, and intellectual yearning, Uselessness follows the life of its narrator, a young Puerto Rican writer studying in Paris, the city of his dreams. There he finds an appreciation of the arts that he has always longed for, yet he remains alienated from it because of his uncertain identity. Meanwhile, he grapples with two long, tumultuous love affairs. He conveys these events in a dark yet witty tone, as if aware of the futility of his youthful follies. After some time he chooses to end perhaps his greatest love affair, that with the city of Paris itself, and return to San Juan. Upon his return, he finds himself just as estranged and alienated at home as he felt abroad. In his writing and academic careers he gains little notoriety, but he tries to help a student whose struggles in many ways reflect his own early days. As he observes this young man's mistakes, the narrator confronts a path he very nearly traveled down himself and, in doing so, accepts his small place in the narrative of countless generations.
  when i was puerto rican: Las Christmas Esmeralda Santiago, Joie Davidow, 2007-12-18 Twenty-five celebrated Latino writers delight and move us with their recollections of Christmas in this splendid holiday extravaganza. From Julia Alvarez's tale of how Santicló delivered a beloved uncle from political oppression to Junot Díaz's story of his own uneasy assimilation on his first Christmas in America, to Sandra Cisneros's poignant memories of her late father's holiday dinners, Las Christmas gives us true stories from writers of many traditions--memories of Christmas and Hanukkah that vividly capture the pride and pain, joy and heartbreak, that so often accompany the holidays in the Americas. Richly illustrated and embellished with songs and poems, along with recipes for an unforgettable Christmas dinner--from traditional sweet tamales to Puerto Rican asopao (stew) and coquito (coconut eggnog)--this is an enduring treasury of Latino writing to read again and again. A heartwarming holiday gift.
  when i was puerto rican: Cuando era puertorriqueña / When I Was Puerto Rican. 30th Anniversary Edition Esmeralda Santiago, 2024-08-27 La historia de Esmeralda Santiago comienza en la parte rural de Puerto Rico, donde sus padres y siete hermanos, en continuas luchas los unos con los otros, vivían una vida alborotada pero llena de amor y ternura. De niña, Esmeralda aprendió a apreciar cómo se come una guayaba, a distinguir la canción del coquí, a identificar los ingredientes en las morcillas y a ayudar a que el alma de un bebé muerto subiera al Cielo. Pero precisamente cuando Esmeralda parecía haberlo aprendido todo sobre su cultura, la llevaron a Nueva York, donde las reglas —y el idioma— eran no sólo diferentes, sino también desconcertantes. Cómo Esmeralda superó la adversidad, se ganó entrada a la Performing Arts High School y después continuó a Harvard, de donde se graduó con altos honores, es el relato de la tremenda trayectoria de una mujer verdaderamente extraordinaria
  when i was puerto rican: Growing Up Puerto Rican Joy De Jesús, 1998 A collection of twenty pieces written by some of the most important Puerto Rican writers as well as several provocative new authors. Selections range from poignant autobiographical recollections to painful memories of a childhood that is neither here nor there; of questions of identity, conflicted loyalties, language and culture. It explores the youthful passion, love, anguish, and shared experiences involved in growing up Puerto Rican in America.
  when i was puerto rican: The Mom 100 Cookbook Katie Workman, 2012-04-03 Introducing the lifesaving cookbook for every mother with kids at home—the book that solves the 20 most common cooking dilemmas. What’s your predicament: breakfast on a harried school morning? The Mom 100’s got it—Personalized Pizzas are not only fast but are nutritious, and hey, it doesn’t get any better than pizza for breakfast. Kids making noise about the same old lunch? The Mom 100’s got it—three different Turkey Wraps, plus a Wrap Blueprint delivers enough variety to last for years. Katie Workman, founding editor in chief of Cookstr.com and mother of two school-age kids, offers recipes, tips, techniques, attitude, and wisdom for staying happy in the kitchen while proudly keeping it homemade—because homemade not only tastes best, but is also better (and most economical) for you. The Mom 100 is 20 dilemmas every mom faces, with 5 solutions for each: including terrific recipes for the vegetable-averse, the salad-rejector, for the fish-o-phobe, or the overnight vegetarian convert. “Fork-in-the-Road” variations make it easy to adjust a recipe to appeal to different eaters (i.e., the kids who want bland and the adults who don’t). “What the Kids Can Do” sidebars suggest ways for kids to help make each dish.
  when i was puerto rican: Memoirs of Bernardo Vega Bernardo Vega, 1984
  when i was puerto rican: Las Mamis Esmeralda Santiago, Joie Davidow, 2001-04-17 A marvelous new anthology from the editors of Las Christmas in which our most admired Latino authors share memories of their mothers. The women lovingly portrayed in Las Mamis represent a cross section of Latino life and culture. They come from rich families in the big cities of Latin America, from rural immigrant families, and from the worlds in between-and they share an extraordinary inner strength, often maintained against incredible odds. Pressed by conflicting cultural expectations, circumstance, and religion, they have managed the challenges of motherhood, leaving enduring legacies for their children. Now, in these vivid, poignant, and sometimes hilarious reminiscences-all of them infused with distinct sabor latino-Las Mamis celebrates the universality of family love and the special bond between mothers and children. Contributors include: Esmeralda Santiago, Piri Thomas, Marjorie Agosin, Junot Diaz, Alba Ambert, Liz Balmaseda, Mandalit del Barco, Gioconda Belli, Maria Escandon, Dagoberto Gilb, Francisco Goldman, Jaime Manrique, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Ilan Stavans
  when i was puerto rican: Los Republicanos Leslie Sanchez, 2007-08-07 Hispanics comprise one of America's largest business-minded, faith-based, culturally-conservative entities—and their numbers continue to grow. Long assumed to be aligned with the Democrats, Hispanics have been ignored by many Republicans. Noted Hispanic marketing expert and political commentator Leslie Sanchez passionately argues that Hispanics, after years of watching Democrats fail them, need to shift their bets to Los Republicanos or risk gambling away their political future. In her book, Sanchez debunks the cultural and political myths about Hispanics and Republicans alike. She also offers a look at today's changing Hispanic mindset and the new dynamic force that is rising.
  when i was puerto rican: The Taste of Sugar Marisel Vera, 2021-07-06 It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of other puertorriquenos, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii—another US territory—where they are confronted by the hollowness of America’s promises of prosperity. Writing in the tradition of great Latin American storytelling, Marisel Vera’s The Taste of Sugar is an unforgettable novel of love and endurance, and a timeless portrait of the reasons we leave home.
  when i was puerto rican: Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family Hilda Lloréns, 2014-10-30 In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study of images—photographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and films—about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990. Through illuminating discussions of artists, images, and social events, the book offers a critical analysis of the power-laden cultural and historic junctures imbricated in the creation of re-presentations of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans by Americans (“outsiders”) and Puerto Ricans (“insiders”) during an historical epoch marked by the twin concepts of “modernization” and “progress.” The study excavates the ways in which colonial power and resistance to it have shaped representations of Puerto Rico and its people. Hilda Lloréns demonstrates how nation, race, and gender figure in representation, and how these representations in turn help shape the discourses of nation, race, and gender. Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family masterfully illustrates that as significant actors in the shaping of national conceptions of history image-makers have created iconic symbols deeply enmeshed in an “emotional aesthetics of nation.” The book proposes that images as important conveyers of knowledge and information are a fertile data site. At the same time, Lloréns underscores how colonial modernity turned global, the conceptual framework informing the analysis, not only calls attention to the national and global networks in which image-makers have been a part of, and by which they have been influenced, but highlights the manners by which technologies of imaging and “seeing” have been prime movers as well as critics of modernity.
  when i was puerto rican: Juan Bob Goes to Work Marisa Montes, 2006-09-01 Although he tries to do exactly as his mother tells him, foolish Juan Bobo keeps getting things all wrong.
  when i was puerto rican: Puerto Rican Cookery Carmen Aboy Valldejuli, 1983 A collection of recipes for Puerto Rican dishes, covering all courses from soups to desserts, with a chapter on rum drinks. Includes a glossary and English and Spanish indexes.
  when i was puerto rican: A Doll for Navidades Esmeralda Santiago, 2005 While preparing for Christmas in Puerto Rico, seven-year-old Esmeralda asks the Three Magi for a baby doll like her cousin's, but when they bring something else instead she gains a deeper understanding of the meaning of the holiday.
  when i was puerto rican: Family Installments Edward Rivera, 1983 The author (c.1939-2001) chronicles his family's journey from a small Puerto Rican village to New York City.
  when i was puerto rican: Feather Crowns Bobbie Ann Mason, 2020-09-01 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD From prize-winning author Bobbie Ann Mason, a brilliantly wrought novel about the first woman to give birth to quintuplets in early 1900s America. Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900—a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world—Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman who unintentionally creates a national sensation. A farm wife living near the small town of Hopewell, Kentucky, Christianna Wheeler gives birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in North America. Christie is suddenly thrown into a swirling storm of public attention. Hundreds of strangers descend on her home, all wanting to see and touch the miracle babies. The fate of the babies and the bizarre events that follow their births propel Christie and her husband far from home, on a journey that exposes them to the turbulent pageant of life at the beginning of the modern era. Richly detailed and poignant, Feather Crowns focuses on one woman but opens out ultimately into the chronicle of a time and a people. Written in Bobbie Ann Mason's taut yet lyrical prose, the novel ranges from a peaceful farming community to a fire-and-brimstone revival camp, from traveling shows to the the nation's capital. Moving through the center of it all is Christie, a charming, headstrong, loving woman who struggles heroically to come to terms with the extraordinary events of her long life. Feather Crowns is an American parable of profound resonance. Spellbindingly readable, it is a novel of classic stature that confirmed Bobbie Ann Mason as one of America's most important writers.
  when i was puerto rican: America's Dream Esmeralda Santiago, 2009-07-01 A novel for secondary school English classes with great writing and important themes.
  when i was puerto rican: Hybridity in Esmeralda Santiago’s "When I was Puerto Rican" , 2022-08-30 Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: This research is going to deal with the factors that have influenced Santiago’s hybrid transformation. In order to facilitate this, the main focus of this paper will be put on her progression concerning national identity, cultural identity and gender identity. Our goal is to find out to what extent Santiago’s hybrid transformation becomes visible when further analysing her identity development.
  when i was puerto rican: When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago, 2006-02-28 One of The Best Memoirs of a Generation (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.
  when i was puerto rican: When I Was Puerto Rican Morgan Warner, Kenneth Swensen, Zylkia Swensen, 2019-11-29 Hello everyone! My name is Zylkia Swensen. I am a 40 years mother, with 6 kids. I started writing this book as a source Getting everything I had bottle up. Its purpose was serve and now I can move on with my life. I'm the weird kind, was not very popular, if anything I was the Anti-popular. My hear was a mess, many moments where bullies would humiliate me. Contemplating Suicide is never the option although sometime it seems like a quick way out. I know, I been there. Join me, you see how no matter how bad everything goes there is always a silver lightning.
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When I Was Puerto Rican as Borderland Narrative: Bridging Caribbean and U.S. Latino Literature New Mexico State University Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican bridges the categories of U.S. and Caribbean literatures in challenging ways. I use Santiago s Bildungsroman to help make visible, in the

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When I Was Puerto Rican By Esmeralda Santiago Esmeralda Santiago (b. 1948) was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and she came to the United States when she was thirteen. Santiago attended New York City’s Performing Arts High School, where she majored in drama and dance. After eight years of part-time study at community

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When I Was Puerto Rican A Memoir Esmeralda Santiago For Discussion 1. Though Santiago’s story takes place in several locations, she specifically contrasts two kinds of community: the rural one, represented by Macún, and the urban culture of …

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In When I was Puerto Rican, the author-narrator Santiago, affectionately called Negi, short for Negrita, experiences frequent relocations in rural and urban Puerto Rico and later in Brooklyn, New York.

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In 1952, Puerto Rico became a commonwealth, which offered autonomy for the island. Beginning in 1960 the Census of Population and Housing was conducted as a joint project between the Census Bureau and the government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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After being assigned to for kids with learning disabilities because she cannot speak English well, decides that Brooklyn is not the place for her. When her family moves and changes schools, she is given the chance to write her own ticket. WHILE FRANCISCO WAS STILL ALIVE, WE HAD MOVED TO ELLERY STREET.

REMEMBERING PUERTO RICAN IDENTITY: WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN…
When I Was Puerto Rican, by Esmeralda Santiago, and . Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic, by Edward Rivera, what it means to be Puerto Rican in this fluid setting between borders. At the same time, we will examine the effects of crossing borders on Puerto Rican culture and community in the United States and in Puerto Rico.

The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity
Puerto Rico epitomizes the one language–one identity debate. For generations, to be a Puerto Rican meant speaking Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS), not the American English (AE) brought to the country over a century ago. Although granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, Puerto Ricans have continued to consider themselves Puerto Ricans first and Americans

PUERTO RICANS: IMMIGRANTS AND MIGRANTS - AmericansAll
Puerto Rico, an island in the Caribbean, has a long and rich history. Christopher Columbus landed on the island in 1493 during his second voyage to America. The Taino people who lived there called the island “Borinquen.” Today Boricua means Puerto Rican, and many Puerto Ricans refer to the island as Borinquen in verses, songs or conversations.

Health and Reproductive Assessment of Selected Puerto Rican …
In 2002, 40 adult Puerto Rican parrots that had not produced viable offspring were selected for reproductive assessment at 2 aviary populations in Puerto Rico (Iguaca and Rio Abajo), which are the only sources of parrots for release.

Race, Gender, and Transnationalism - JSTOR
Over the last decade, some of the cutting-edge research in Puerto Rican studies has dealt with the problematic relations between Puerto Ricans and other racial and ethnic minorities, such as African Americans, Mexicans, Dominicans, and Cubans. Juan Flores and Raquel Z. Rivera have examined the emergence of a hip hop style, especially

Taking Care of the Puerto Rican Patient: Historical Perspectives ...
Compare and contrast health issues and disparities of Puerto Ricans residing on the island and on the mainland. Explain how at least one state or federal policy has impacted the health outcomes of Puerto Ricans on the mainland and/or the island.

The Enduring Role of the Family in the Happiness of Puerto Ricans
In order to contribute to the study of happiness from a cultural perspective and to understand how Puerto Ricans describe their particular meaning of happiness, a two-phase qualitative descriptive design study was conducted before and after hurricane Maria hit our country.

Puerto Rican independence movement, 1898–present
2768 Puerto Rican independence movement, 1898–present least of which was the well-established character of the Irish movement as contrasted with the novelty of the nationalist approach within the Puerto Rican context. Furthermore, the rise of the US and the decline of the British state on the world stage in the early twentieth century

The Puerto Rican Paradox: Colonialism Revisited
The book studies the construction of the Puerto Rican national identity and the forging of cultural nationalism on the island and in the United States during the twentieth century.

Puerto Ricans in Massachusetts, the United States, and Puerto …
This report compares the Puerto Rican populations in Massachusetts, the United States, and Puerto Rico to identify diferences and similarities in demographics and economic status. It also illustrates the migration patterns of Puerto Ricans coming to Massachusetts.

Puerto Rican and Hispanic or Latino Population Growth in …
Puerto Rican population increased by 2,180,885% or from 13 in 1850 to 283,528 in 2021. Puerto Rican migration to Connecticut began in the aftermath of World War II and during the 1950s.

GOVERNMENT OF PUERTO RICO - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• All cattle arriving to Puerto Rico will be quarantine at the destination of the consignee until it has completed a brucellosis test within thirty (30) days of arrival and a second Tuberculosis test within ninety (90) days of their arrival.

The Role of Sterilization in Controlling Puerto Rican Fertility
With the passage of many years and with indications of a recent decline in Puerto Rican fertility, the question arises whether the popularity of sterilization has continued, or increased, and whether women undergo the operation earlier.

Introduction to Puerto Rico Acts 20 and 22 - Internal Revenue …
on Puerto Rican related income Benefits generally limited to buying Puerto Rican real estate and investing in Puerto Rican businesses Gain on U.S. individual’s stock/bonds/other investment …

2021 POPULATION PROFILE OF PUERTO RICANS IN THE CITY OF …
• In 2021, at least 36% of the Puerto Rican population lived below the poverty line in the city of Waterbury. • The poverty rate of Puerto Ricans (36%) in Waterbury was higher than that of …

The Heritage and Culture of Puerto Ricans - Yale University
The contributions to Puerto Rican culture made by the Taino Indians (language, music, dance, art and cultural traditions). 2. The contributions to Puerto Rican culture made by the Spaniards …

Transgressing Borders: Puerto Rican and Latina Mestizaje
Puerto Rican mestizaje-the brown, the pink, and the black but of cul-tural mixture, too. Mestizaje transcends racial categories to include a mix-ture of languages, religions, gender types, and …

Women, Gender, and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party - Springer
Women, Gender, and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Margaret Power Lolita Lebrón led the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party’s March 1, 1954, attack on the US Congress to bring world …

IV Perspectives on Puerto Rican Culture
Perspectives on Puerto Rican Culture Rafael Ramirez reviews and critiques the three major approaches which have characterized discussions of Puerto Rican culture - the culturalist, the …

Puerto Ricans in Massachusetts: Demographic Profile and Fact Sheet
Puerto Ricans versus all residents. While over 40% of all Massachusetts residents have a college degree, this is true of just 10.6% of Puerto Rican residents. CHILD POVERTY RATE Poverty …

Culturally Responsive Health Promotion in Puerto Rican …
1998). Like that of other groups, the Puerto Rican col lective cultural consciousness reflects historical, polit ical, economic, and social conditions and serves as a cultural resource to meet …

'LOCAS,' RESPECT, AND MASCULINITY: Gender Conformity in Migrant Puerto ...
Puerto Rican Masculinity is one of the few contemporary works on Puerto Rican masculinity. Ramirez notes that Puerto Rican men focus primarily on more powerful men in their …

Lost in Design: The Absence (Mostly) of Cultural Heritage in Puerto ...
We have also studied the Puerto Rican jíbaro or mountain peasant—one of the most significant images of Puerto Rican cultural identity—examining a variety of transformations of the …

Teaching Taíno: An Interrogation of Puerto Rican Indigenous …
Puerto Rican scholar, Ricardo Alegría, as head of the newly formed Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) which was tasked with the creation of a Puerto Rican identity that would be …

NEW CURRENTS IN PUERTO RICAN HISTORY:
The 1990s in turn have witnessed Puerto Rican scholars' struggle with the challenges from postmodernist theoretical approaches.3 The lack of discernible or desirable historical …

Characteristics of Puerto Rican Migrants to, and from, the United …
of the motivations of Puerto Rican migrants in the United States is the survey by Mills and associates, whose findings are reported in The Puerto Rican Journey. Between January and …

Puerto Ricans in the United States, 1900 2008: Demographic, …
Puerto Rican Population of the United States, 1900 - 2008. Although migration from the island continued into the 1970s and beyond the volume was reduced considerably and Puerto Rican …

PUERTO RICAN LAND REFORM: THE HISTORY OF AN
Puerto Rican sugar producers, whose crop amounted to only about 70,000 tons, but they were worried that large investments would enter Puerto Rico and greatly expand its sugar …

THE PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA TO THE UNITED STATES:
and the Puerto Rican Reconstruction Administration (PRRA). In 1947, President Harry S. Truman appointed the first Puerto Rican-born governor, Jesús T. Piñero. That same year, the Puerto …

Puerto Rican Indigenous Medicinal Plants Research - Skidmore …
Puerto Rican Indigenous Medicinal Plants Research For millennia, the indigenous peoples of Puerto Rico, the Tainos and their ancestors, have lived in biological harmony with their land …

Multi-resolution habitat models of the Puerto Rican Nightjar ...
Multi-resolution habitat models of the Puerto Rican Nightjar Antrostromus noctitherus Francisco J. Vilella1 and Rafael González2 1US Geological Survey, Mississippi Cooperative Fish and …

IN SEARCH OF MASCULINITY: Violence, Respect and Sexuality among Puerto ...
In the Puerto Rican case, the change in power relations has been further polar ized since World War II by a massive rural to urban migration set in a hostile cultural context. The Puerto Rican …

Puerto Rican Bullfinch Melopyrrha portoricensis
The Puerto Rican Bullfinch is called Comeñame in Spanish. This bird lives only in Puerto Rico, but it has some “cousins” living on other Caribbean islands. If the same species of bird lives on …

How an Irish-American Priest Became Puerto Rican of the
the situation of the Puerto Rican newcomers, was delivered on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the Vera Cruz chapter of the Knights of Columbus in the Bronx on May 18, 1952.9

Puerto Rican Nationalist Uprising - University at Albany, SUNY
The Puerto Rican Commonwealth Act In a series of fiery speeches between 1948 and 1950, Al­ bizu Campos excoriated the United States for keeping Puerto Rico's people in economic …

The Impact of Social Capital on the Earnings of Puerto Rican …
Michael Bernabe Aguilera Social Capital and Puerto Rican Migrant Earnings 6 to 11 years of education to have their wages parallel the wages of migrants with rich, full social networks. …

La operación: Coerced Sterilization of Puerto Rican Women in the …
States government through Puerto Rican public health institutions. In 1965, it was estimated that one-third of Puerto Rican women of child-bearing age had been sterilized, a rate ten times …

Enduring Migration: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms
Puerto Rican seasonal migration began in post-war United States during the late 1940s. Initially, the need for workers led to the push for recruiting agents to travel to

An Assessment of Opportunities and Barriers to in Puerto Rico …
The Puerto Rican Solar Business Accelerator (PRSBA) program supports solar workforce development, finance, and microgrid development in Puerto Rico. In partnership with …

Puerto Rican Girls Speak! : The Meanings Of Success For Puerto Rican ...
Puerto Rican Girls Speak! • 85 Hilda Lloréns and Carlos García-Quijano. this article reports findings of . puerto rican girls speak! (prgs! hereafter), an ethnographic research project begun …

An Analysis of “The Oxcart” by René Marqués, Puerto Rican …
first modern Puerto Rican play to be presented in Europe when it was produced by a Spanish theatre company at the Mar’a Guerrero National Theatre Company in Madrid. In May, 1961, it …

P u e r to R i c an s O v e r w h e l m i n g l y S u p p o r t th e Im ...
These results must be understood in the context of a Puerto Rican population whose primary political affiliation is to local political parties rather than U.S. national parties. Even if Puerto …

Reproductive ecology and behaviour of the Puerto Rican Nightjar ...
The reproductive ecology and behaviour of the endangered Puerto Rican Nightjar Caprimulgus noctitherus was studied at the Guanica Forest, located in south-western Puerto Rico. From …

Heterosexual Anal Sex Experiences Among Puerto Rican and …
Puerto Rican populations. Eligibility criteria included self identification as Puerto Rican or black, being 18-25, not being pregnant, having been born on the U.S. mainland or in Puerto Rico, …

Puerto Rican Political Prisoners - University at Albany, SUNY
Puerto Rican political parties, and former president Jimmy Carter, called on the Clinton administration to grant the prisoners unconditional release. The massive protests against navy …

MOISESGAVIRIA, M.D.! RONALD WINTROB, M.D. - SAGE Journals
Puerto Rican Folk BeliefsaboutMentalI1Iness* MOISESGAVIRIA, M.D.! RONALD M. WINTROB, M.D.2 Introduction Approximately 1.5 million Puerto Ricans live in the United States as …

The Underlying Effects of Religion in Puerto Rico
The intent of this thesis is to explore the role religion has played in the Puerto Rican society. Growing up in this culture entails a deep and implicit connection with the religious world. …

Dutchirican: The Growing Puerto Rican Presence in the …
14 May 2012 · 366 JOHN HINSHAW October 1 Gilbert Marzan, “Still Looking for that Elsewhere: Puerto Rican Poverty and Migration in the Northeast,” Centro Journal 21 (2009): 100–117. 2 …

Genetic diversity and selection in Puerto Rican horses - Nature
Puerto Rican breeds, we collected samples across the island and sequenced D-loops in 200 horses using Network 5 9 (Fig. 1). With these data, we reconstructed mitochondrial haplotypes …

Age Overstatement and Puerto Rican Longevity
the Puerto Rican figure is 1.1 years higher. The Puerto Rican advantage is obtained despite its much lower in-come level. It is prudent to consider whether this finding might be less a …

THE NEW BOOGALOO: NUYORICAN POETRY AND THE COMING PUERTO RICAN …
Puerto Rican literature of the states, coupled with her position as the preeminent book critic on the Island, has definitely helped to get several of these writers more exposure in . 4

Saving the parcela: A short history of Boston's Puerto Rican …
Matos-Rodriguez ~ '. j ~ AFT --Do Not Quote w / out the Author's Written Permission. ,) ~~ 1 ~ '~~ ~ It was, according to several participants, the largest public protest by the <5 ~ ~ Puerto …

Fact Sheet: Puerto Rican Participation in the U.S. Armed Forces
Veteran Community • Number of Veterans - According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs well over 90,000 American veterans call Puerto Rico home. • Veterans …

PUERTO RICO ANNUAL FACT SHEET - pr
•Economic Report to the Governor 20 2, Puerto Rico Planning Board • Employment and Unemployment in Puerto Rico, 2022, Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources …

The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano, Negro, …
6 Jun 2015 · group of Puerto Rican migrants in New York between 1890 and 1900. Over the course of the 1890s, even as his political involvement in the cause of Puerto Rican and Cuban …

Old Voices, New Voices: Mainland Puerto Rican Perspectives and …
early Puerto Rican community that took root in New York. In the foreword to A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches, by Jesus Colon, Juan Flores writes: [These texts] are in fact …

This extensive essay, part of a volume of studies on Puerto ... - ed
This extensive essay, part of a volume of studies on Puerto. Rico, presents various views of Puerto Rican culture. Puerto Rico's role in. the history of the Caribbean. region and Puerto …

Contextualizing the Relationship between Culture and Puerto Rican ...
Puerto Rican health disparities are best understood if culture is contextualized, as keen acculturation scholars are beginning to do (Arévalo et al. 2015). In the next section of the …

Puerto Rico’s Public Debts: Accumulation and Restructuring
the Puerto Rican government, hedge funds, bond insurers, and others. Puerto Rico’s public debts fall into four categories: general obligation (GO) bonds and other debt payable through the …

Puerto Rican and Proud: The Varying Understandings of Puerto Rican ...
how do Puerto Rican students choose to identify and display their identity on a personal level, and 2)how do they manage their identities within a larger context on a predominantly White …

Paseo Boricua: Claiming a Puerto Rican Space in Chicago
Park, was already the center of the Puerto Rican community. Institutions such as El Teatro San Juan and the YMCA were located on “La Division,” as well as the offices of Puerto Rican …

Multiple Hybridities: Jíbaros and Diaspora in Esmeralda Santiago’s …
When I Was Puerto Rican By Lorna L. Pérez Esmeralda Santiago's first memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, published in 1994, chronicles the childhood and relocation of Santiago and her …

Puerto Rican Haplogroup Distribution: A Taíno History
PUERTO RICAN HAPLOGROUP DISTRIBUTION: A TAÍNO HISTORY By PAIGE MACKENZIE WILLIAMS BA, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, 2021 Thesis presented in …