Volume 4, Issue 1 / 2. 1972

Themes:

The Status of Puerto Rico; racism; sexism; colonialism; class; self-identity; assimilation; self-esteem; exploitation

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Piri Thomas, Diana Caballero, The Children's Art Collective, Irma Garcia, Jose Garcia, Latin American Students Organization (LASO), Emanuel Crespo, Edith Davila, Charles DeLeon, Arlene Riviera, Jose Santiago, Alan West, Miguel Ortiz, Dolores Prida, Carmen Puigdollers, Brad Chambers, Nessa Darren, Henry Gordillo, Constance Gruen, Susan Ribner, Virginia Rice, Al Schwartz, Lillian Smith, Ralph Tavarea, Byron Williams

Materials Reviewed:

Historia de Nuestros Indios by Ricardo E. Alegría. Amazon / WorldCat
Descubrimiento, conquista y colonizacion de Puerto Rico by Ricardo E. Alegría. Amazon / WorldCat
Cuentos folklóricos de Puerto Rico by Ricardo E. Alegría. Amazon / WorldCat
Pipo: poemas infantiles by Virgilio Dávila. Amazon / WorldCat
Pedruquito y sus Amigos/Little Peter and His Friends by Aníbal Díaz Montero. Amazon / WorldCat
Nanas by Ester Feliciano Mendoza. Amazon / WorldCat
Fabián by Luis Nieves Falcón. Amazon / WorldCat
Poemas y Colores by Wenceslao Serra Deliz. Amazon / WorldCat
Mi Música by Wenceslao Serra Deliz. Amazon / WorldCat
ABC de Puerto Rico by Rubén del Rosario. Amazon / WorldCat
What Is a Birthday Child? by Ruth M. Jaynes. Amazon / WorldCat
Dear Uncle Carlos by Seymour Reit. Amazon / WorldCat
What Do I Do? by Norma Simon and Joe Lasker. Amazon / WorldCat
Carmen by Bill Binzen. Amazon / WorldCat
Maria by Joan M. Lexau. Amazon / WorldCat
I Am Here/ Yo soy aquí by Rose Blue. Amazon / WorldCat
Angelita by Wendy Kesselman. Amazon / WorldCat
Rosa-Too-Little by Sue Felt. Amazon / WorldCat
My House Is Your House by Tony Talbot. Amazon / WorldCat
Magdalena by Louisa R. Shotwell. Amazon / WorldCat
A Present from Rosalita by Celeste Edell. Amazon / WorldCat
The Spider Plant by Yetta Speevack. Amazon / WorldCat
Rosaria by Susan Thaler. Amazon / WorldCat
Gang Girl by H. Samuel Fleischman. Amazon / WorldCat
The Girl from Puerto Rico by Hila Colman. Amazon / WorldCat
Don't Look at Me That Way by Caroline Crane. Amazon / WorldCat
The Puerto Rican Woman: Her Life and Evolution Throughout History by Federico Ribes Tovar. Amazon / WorldCat
Albizu Campos: Puerto Rican Revolutionary by Federico Ribes Tovar. Amazon / WorldCat
La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty, San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis. Amazon / WorldCat
Spanish Harlem: Anatomy of Poverty by Patricia Cayo Sexton. Amazon / WorldCat
Breve historia de Puerto Rico by Loida Figueroa. Amazon / WorldCat
El movimiento libertador en la historia de Puerto Rico by Don Ramón Medina Ramírez . Amazon / WorldCat
Palante by Michael Abramson and the Young Lords Party. Amazon / WorldCat
Puerto Rico: A Profile by Kal Wagenheim. Amazon / WorldCat
Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean by Gordon Lewis. Amazon / WorldCat
Puerto Rico: Una interpretación histórico-social by Manuel Maldonado Denis. Amazon / WorldCat
We, the Puerto Rican People by Juan Angel Silén. Amazon / WorldCat
A Surprise for Carlotta by Nellie Burchardt. Amazon / WorldCat
Candita's Choice by Mina Lewiton. Amazon / WorldCat
Hablamos! Puerto Ricans Speak by Henrietta Yurchenco. Amazon / WorldCat
The Puerto Rican Heritage Encyclopedia by Federico Ribes Tovar. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Papo Got His Gun by Victor Hernandez Cruz
Snaps by Victor Hernandez Cruz
Have You Seen Liberation? by Jesus Papoleto Melendez
Street Poetry by Jesus Papoleto Melendez
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Savior, Savior, Hold My Hand by Piri Thomas
The Island of Puerto Rico by J. David Bowen
Island in the Crossroads by M. M. Brau
The First Book of Puerto Rico by Antonio J. Colorado
Puerto Ricans: From Island to Mainland by Arlene Harris Kurtis
Young Puerto Rico by Jack Manning
Puerto Rico in Pictures by Robert V. Masters
Puerto Rico: Bridge to Freedom by Edna McGuire
Father and Son for Freedom by Marianna Norris
Puerto Rican Patriot by Mack Reynolds
Getting to Know Puerto Rico by Frances Rollins
The Quiet Rebels by Philip Sterling and Maria Brau
Heroes of Puerto Rico by Jay Nelson Tuck and Norma Coolen Vergara
Events in the History of Puerto Rico by Pablo Figueroa
Hacia una vision positiva del puertoriqqueño by Juan Angel Silén
Three Men by the River by René Marqués
Antonio's World by John Figueroa
Around Another Corner by Emily Hearn
Barto Takes the Subway by Barbara Brenner
Baseball Flyhawk by Matt Christopher
The Boy Who Wouldn't Talk by Lois Kalb Bouchard
Carlito's World by Veronica Nash
Casa Means Home by Nardi R. Campion
Chito by Peter Burchard
City High Champions by William Heuman
City High Five by William Heumann
The Clubhouse by Peggy Mann
The Day Luis Was Lost by Edna Barth
Discovering Puerto Rico by Natalie Nelson
Doña Felisa by Marianna Norris
Emilio's Summer Day by Miriam Anne Bourne
Enrique by Pablo Figueroa
Friday Night is Papa Night by Ruth A. Sonneborn
Garbage Can Cat by Victor Sharoff
The Green Song by Doris Troutman
A Guy Can Be Wrong by Barbara Rinkoff
Here I Am! by Virginia Olsen Baron
I Am from Puerto Rico by Peter Buckley
Jose's Christmas Secret by Joan M. Lexau
Juan Bobo and the Queen's Necklace by Pura Belpré
María and Ramón by G. Warren Schloat
Miguel's Mountain by Bill Binzen
Mira! Mira! by Dawn C. Thomas
Moncho and the Dukes by Eleanor Hull
The Musical Palm Tree by Robert Barry
My Dog is Lost by Ezra Jack Keats and Pat Cherr
My Ups and Downs in Baseball by Orlando Cepeda and Charles Einstein
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stoltz
Oté by Pura Belpré
The Parsonage Parrot by Jean Bothwell
The People Downstairs and Other City Stories by Rhoda Bacmeister
Pepper, A Puerto Rican Mongoose by James Ralph Johnson
Perez and Martina by Pura Belpré
The Pirate of Puerto Rico by Lee Cooper
Ramón and the Pirate Gull by Robert Barry
Ramón of Puerto Rico by Frances H. Kohan and Truda T. Weil
Roberto Clemente: Batting King by Arnold Hano
Santiago by Pura Belpré
Seven in a Bed by Ruth A. Sonneborn
The Seventeenth Street Gang by Emily Cheney Neville
The Silver Cart by Irving Sloane
The Street Kids by Herbert Danska
The Street of the Flower Boxes by Peggy Mann
That Bad Carlos by Mina Lewiton
Three Came Riding by Ellsworth Newcomb
The Three Wishes by Ricardo E. Alegría
The Tiger and the Rabbit and Other Tales by Pura Belpré
Tino by Marlene Fanta Shyer
Tomás Takes Charge by Charlene Joy Talbot
A Trainful of Strangers by Eleanor Hull
Tres Casas, Tres Familias by Edna Beiler
Twenty-One Children by Virginia H. Ormsby
Two and Me Makes Three by Roberta Greene
Two Blocks Apart: Juan Gonzales and Peter Quinn by Charlotte Leon Mayerson
The Violet Tree by Doris Troutman Plenn
The Way It Is by John Holland
A Week in Henry's World by Inger McCabe
A Week in Leonora's World by Eliot Elisofon
What Do I Say? by Norma Simon
What's Wrong with Julio? by Virginia H. Ormsby
When Carlos Closed the Street by Peggy Mann
William, Andy and Ramon by Hortense Jones
The World of Carlos by William Hairston
The Puerto Rican Poets / Los poetas Puertorriqueños by Alfredo Natillo and Ivan Silén
Grito y mordaza by Luis Nieves Falcón
Puerto Rico, supervivencia y liberación by Monseñor Antulio Parrilla
The Poor: A Culture of Poverty or a Poverty of Culture by J.C. Winter

Keywords:

Puerto Rico, racism, sexism, colonialism, class, self-identity, assimilation, white savior, resistance, Third World, "The School", Children's Art Workshop, stereotypes, self-image, self-esteem, publishing, Accion Social Inc., Libreria Internacional, silk screening, Sociedad de Autores Puertorriquenas, Isabel Cuchi Coll, Ateneo, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, liberation, New Directions, Research for Urban Education, Pura Belpre, Maria Brau, Antonio Colorado, John Figuera, Pablo Figuero, numerical analysis, Lorenzo Homar, Sam Morales, Bill Negron, "how-to-adjust-to-the-ghetto", exploitation, Taino, Pedro Albizu Campos, Nationalist Movement, Caribs, Spanish conquistadors, slave uprisings, Jones Act, Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico, Editorial Edil, Editorial Cultural, Editorial Cordillera, Editorial Club La Prensa, Ramon Emetrio Betances, Julio Vizcarrondo, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Lola Rodriguez de Tio, Rosendo Matienzo Citron, Pedro Albizu Campos, Mariana Bracetti, Jose de Diego, Young Lords Party, women's movement, Fleischmann Commission, Awilda Orta, Puerto Rican Educators Association (PREA), Spanish, bilingual, Batey Book Distributing Co., Children's Music Center, Inc., Puerto Rican Heritage Publication, Puerto Rican Research and Resource Center, Spanish Book Corporation of America, Trans-Culture Books, The Status of Puerto Rico: Selected Background Studies Prepared for the United States - Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto Rico, asimilistas, separatistas, censorship, United Bronx Parents, Sin Nombre, Asomante, Projecto LEER, Palante