Politics

CFP: Latino(a) Research Review (Feb 1, 2012)

20 September 2011

Call for Papers for Special Issue of the Latino(a) Research Review (LRR) The Legacies of Puerto Rican Social, Cultural, and Political Activism in the United States Deadline for Manuscript Submissions: February 1, 2012   For this special issue, the Latino(a) Research Review (LRR) invites articles that document and analyze different forms of social, cultural, and [...]

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2012 PRSA Conference Call-for-Papers

14 April 2011

10th Biennial Conference Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) October 24–28, 2012 University at Albany – State University of New York (SUNY) Call for Papers, Panels and Presentations BORICUAS AND OTHER BORDER CROSSERS: OF DIASPORAS AND LATINIDADES Join us in celebration of PRSA’s Twentieth Anniversary. The Puerto Rican Studies Association’s conference meeting of October, 2012, will [...]

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Convocatoria Conferencia PRSA 2012

14 April 2011

Décima Conferencia Bienal Puerto Rican Studies Association 24–28 de octubre de 2012 University at Albany – State University of New York (SUNY) Convocatoria: Ensayos, Paneles y Presentaciones BORICUAS Y OTR@S TRANSGRESORES DE FRONTERAS: SOBRE DIASPORAS Y LATINIDADES Únanse a nosotros para celebrar el Vigésimo Aniversario de PRSA. La Décima Conferencia Bienal de la Asociación de [...]

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Rosario Morales, 1930-2011

14 April 2011

Rosario Morales, 1930-2011 by Aurora Levins Morales and Richard Levins Born in 1930 to immigrant parents from Naranjito, Rosario grew up in Harlem and the South Bronx, in a working class home. She attended Hunter College in the late 1940s, where her interests in science and social justice led her to join the Communist Party. [...]

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Retrospective: UPR Student Strike, 2010-2011

14 April 2011

UPR in focus: Spring Retrospective on the Winter of Resistance by Melissa Rosario **Special Note** I invite readers to consider making the “UPR in focus” a regular forum for dialoguing about the UPR crisis, evaluating strategies, sharing news, and/or brainstorming interventions we as educators and scholars of Puerto Rican Studies can make to defend access [...]

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CENTRO Journal Spring 2011 TOC

14 April 2011

Editor’s Note: Thanks to a new arrangement between CENTRO Journal and PRSA, we will publish here in this “Noticiero” blog the Table of Contents of FORTHCOMING issues as they become available. We offer this as another service to visitors of our new website. CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies FORTHCOMING – Spring [...]

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