Río Piedras R.: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
401 p, "Key scholars provide comprehensive coverage of central issues in historiography of Puerto Rican migration to US. Includes chapters on economic forces, family life, impact on women, education, literature, music, return migration, and political status. Excellent bibliography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58; Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-401).
Landale,Nancy S. (Author), Oropesa,R. S. (Author), and Davila,Ana Luisa (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
University Park, PA: Penn State, Population Research Institute
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
1 microfiche, "The Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Study (PRMIHS) is a cross-sectional study designed to provide information on the determinants of poor infant health among Puerto Ricans. The PRMIHS entailed collection of personal interview data from 2,763 mothers of Puerto Rican infants sampled from the 1994 and 1995 birth and infant death records of six U.S. vital statistics reporting areas (Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York City, Pennsylvania) and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The included U.S. states are those with the greatest number of births to Puerto Rican women each year. In 1994 and 1995, 72.3% of all births to mainland Puerto Rican women occurred in the included states.";
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
302 p, Illuminates the profound role sports play in the political and cultural processes of an identity that developed within a political tradition of autonomy rather than traditional political independence. Significantly, it was precisely in the Olympic arena that Puerto Ricans found ways to participate and show their national pride, often by using familiar colonial strictures--and the United States' claim to democratic values--to their advantage. Drawing on extensive archival research, both on the island and in the United States, Sotomayor uncovers a story of a people struggling to escape the colonial periphery through sport and nationhood yet balancing the benefits and restraints of that same colonial status.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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257 p., Argues that in Jamaica and Haiti, creolization represented a tremendous creative art by enslaved peoples. Creolization was not a passive mixing of cultures, but an effort to create new hybrid institutions and cultural meanings to replace those that had been demolished by enslavement.
