Rivera-Batiz,Francisco L. (Author) and Santiago,Carlos E. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
198 p, Contents: Island paradox : Puerto Rico in the 1990s -- Population growth and demographic changes -- Migration between Puerto Rico and the United States -- The socioeconomic transformation : income, poverty, and education -- The labor market and the unemployment crisis -- Immigration and the population born outside Puerto Rico -- The Puerto Rican population in the United States -- Between two worlds : Puerto Rico looks toward the twenty-first century -- Appendix 1. Census data -- Appendix 2. Measuring migration to the United States -- Appendix 3. Population of Puerto Rico by municipio -- Appendix 4. Multivariate regression analysis of the growth and presence of Puerto Ricans in 25 U.S. SMSAs, 1980-90.
160 p., An analytical study of Burundanga or Cantata Antillana by Jack Délano (1914-1997). One of Délano's most ambitious choral-orchestral compositions, Burundanga was completed in 1989 in response to a commission from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and is based on Luis Palés Matos's (1898-1959) extravagant and elaborate poem Canción festiva para ser llorada (A Festive Song to be Wept). Burundanga stands at the foreground of Puerto Rican art-music in the twentieth century. With its neoclassical language and integration of Caribbean folkloric material, it emerges as a unique reflection of the highly complex geographical, social, cultural and musical reality of Puerto Rico and the Antilles. Discerns particular methods by which the composer utilized and adapted Afro-Antillean idioms and combined them with art-music components to portray idiosyncratic aspects of Caribbean culture in a universalistic musical language.
147 p., Discusses how blackness, femaleness and Puerto Ricanness (national identity) is presented in commercial media in Puerto Rico. National identity, no matter how differently defined, is often constructed through claims to heritage, "roots," tradition, and descent. In the western world, these claims, almost inevitably allude to questions of "race." In Puerto Rico, it is the mixture of the Spanish, the Taino Indian, and the African, which come to epitomize the racial/traditional stock out of which "the nation" is constructed, defended, and naturalized. This mixture is often represented by images, statues, murals across the island that display the three racialized representatives, as the predecessors of the modern, racially mixed Puerto Rican people. In their portrayals of black women, figures as Mama Ines (the mammy) and fritoleras (women who cook and sell codfish fritters), Caribbean Negras (Black Caribbean women) contemporary media draw upon familiar representations to make black women bodies intelligible to Puerto Rican audiences.
