Boricuas Influential Puerto Rican Writings--An Anthology

Name: Boricuas Influential Puerto Rican Writings--An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780345395023

ISBN-10: 0345395026

ISBN-13: 9780345395023

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Authors: Roberto Santiago

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MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD "Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people." --From the Introduction From the sun-drenched beaches of a beautiful, flamboyan-covered island to the cool, hard pavement of the fierce South Bronx, the remarkable journey of the Puerto Rican people is a rich story full of daring defiance, courageous strength, fierce passions, and dangerous politics--and it is a story that continues to be told today. Long ignored by Anglo literature studies, here are more…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/11/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.23" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgments


Here



To the Persecuted



The Sounds of Sixth Street



A Letter to a Child Like Me



It Is Raining Today



How to Know the Puerto Ricans



Island of Lost Causes



Hallelujahs



Puerto Rican Nationalism



On Recent Disturbances in Puerto Rico



The Boy Without a Flag



Grand River of Loiza



The "Lamento Borincano"



The Party (From Palante! Young Lords Party)



Los Macheteros



Double Allegiance



Child of the Americas



Ay Ay Ay, of the Kinky Negress



Puerto Ricans: Between Black and White



Nigger-Reecan Blues



Black and Latino



Babylon for the Babylonians (From Down These Mean Streets)



African Things



The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria



A Mongo Affair



Puerto Rican Obituary



The Konk



The Story of My Body



To Julia de Burgos



Hangin' (Out) with the Homeboys



Niggerlips



Little Things Are Big



The Docile Puerto Rican - Literature and Psychological Reality



The American Invasion of Macun (From When I Was Puerto Rican)



Monday Morning



"Looking Good"



Carlito's Way



Short Eyes



Poppa Dio!



Bayaminina



Roots (From Palante! Young Lords Party)



I Became My Own Path



Yoruba (From The Santeria Experience)



Aunt Rosana's Rocker



Aerobics for Love



Malig; Malig and Sal; Sal. (From Dominoes and Other Stories from The Puerto Rican)



My Old Flame



HIV



Poem for My Death



Dedicated to Maria Rodriguez Martinez - February 24, 1975



The Freddie Prinze Story



A Special Kind of Courage: Bernard Carabello



Loiza Aldea



The Final Act



About the Contributors


Author Index


Permission Acknowledgments