Afro-Puerto Rican oral histories

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Géliga Vargas,Jocelyn A. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Collaborative anthropologies
    Journal Title Details:
    4: 90-118
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Blacks, Race relations, Puerto Rican people, and Oral history
    Notes:
    Testimonios afropuertorriqueños: Un proyecto de historia oral en el oeste de Puerto Rico (Afro-Puerto Rican testimonies: An oral history project in western Puerto Rico) is a collaborative research project launched in September 2006. Its purpose is recording the voices, memories, and histories of contemporary Afro-Puerto Ricans in order to fertilize debates about racial constructions and discourses in Puerto Rico and democratize the forum of discussion, representation, and analysis of Afro-Puerto Rican history and identities.

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