Puerto Rico, 2006:
Puerto Rico, 2006:

Author: Mary Hilaire Tavenner

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1456810049

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“This book is a detailed, well-researched history of how a community of Puerto Ricans came to be in the heart if America. Puerto Rico owes a debt of gratitude to the author and should declare Dr. Tavenner an “honorary Boricua” for the extraordinary effort she has put into documenting the factual history and the fascinating life story of her Puerto Rican neighbor in Lorain, Ohio” ---Secretary of State and Lt. Governor of Puerto Rico, Kenneth McClintock “These Memoirs are reflective of an educational journey in search of ways to better understand and serve individuals, communities, and institutions as a servant leader, unconditionally.”] ---Dr. Generosa Lopez-Molina, Educational Leadership

The Economy of Puerto Rico
The Economy of Puerto Rico

Author: Barry Bosworth

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 9780815715535

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In this innovative new book, economists from U.S. and Puerto Rican institutions address a range of major policy issues affecting the islands economic development. To frame the current situation, the contributors begin by assessing Puerto Ricos past experience with various growth policies.

Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico

Author: Luis A. Figueroa

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2006-05-18

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0807876836

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The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the southeastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labor to freedom and free labor after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. He corrects misconceptions about how ex-slaves went about building their lives and livelihoods after emancipation and debunks standing myths about race relations in Puerto Rico. Historians have assumed that after emancipation in Puerto Rico, as in other parts of the Caribbean and the U.S. South, former slaves acquired some land of their own and became subsistence farmers. Figueroa finds that in Puerto Rico, however, this was not an option because both capital and land available for sale to the Afro-Puerto Rican population were scarce. Paying particular attention to class, gender, and race, his account of how these libertos joined the labor market profoundly revises our understanding of the emancipation process and the evolution of the working class in Puerto Rico.

Almost a Woman
Almost a Woman

Author: Esmeralda Santiago

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0306821117

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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.

When I Was Puerto Rican
When I Was Puerto Rican

Author: Esmeralda Santiago

Publisher: Palabra

Published: 2006-02-28

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780306814525

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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.

Luis Muñoz Marín
Luis Muñoz Marín

Author: A. W. Maldonado

Publisher: La Editorial, UPR

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780847701582

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The book describes the most important events in Muñoz's life, played out within his own internal "civil wars": the transformation from a young bohemian, succeding at nothing, to a political leader, spearheading the campaign to convince the jibaros not to sell their vote; the journey from an ardent independentista to a principal architect of today's Commonwealth; finally, the clash between Operation Bootstrap, that lifted the island from extreme poverty through industrialization, and Operation Serenity, an expression of his yearning for socialist values and humanitarian civilization."--Jacket.

Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Author: Jorge Duany

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0197782116

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In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Jorge Duany provides a compendium to the island's rich history, culture, politics, economy, and diaspora. Written in an accessible question-and-answer format, Duany covers the history of the island as well as the demographic, economic, political, and cultural features of contemporary Puerto Rico. He examines the inner workings of the Commonwealth government and the island's relationship to the United States. New material examines the multiple issues affecting Puerto Rico in the last decade, including a prolonged recession, the devastating impact of two hurricanes, and the largest migrant wave ever recorded from Puerto Rico.