Demographics for Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans in the US:
- Puerto Rico Profile, 2010 Census (Bureau of the Census) PDF
- Hispanic or Latino Population in the United States, 2010 (Bureau of the Census)
- Hispanics of Puerto Rican Origin in the United States, 2013 (Pew Research Center)
Senate confirmation hearings of Judge Sotomayor on nomination to Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court:
- Opening statement (see pages 1-2) PDF
- CSPAN video (links to all hearings)
- CSPAN video (highlights)
- Full transcript of confirmation hearing PDF
- “A Latina Judge’s Voice,” speech by U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, 2001, delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (reprinted in New York Times, May 23, 2009)
Streaming Video
You may want to consider Nuyorican Dreams in YouTube. It has six parts. “A gripping portrait of one Puerto Rican family living in NYC.”
Puerto Rican Voices. About this series.
From The Latino Americans by David Belon and Sonia Fritz, PBS, 2013. (Accessed through Kanopy).
- “I had left paradise and gone to a very cold hell”: Rita Moreno in New York City https://brown.kanopystreaming.com/playlist/236103
- Puerto Rican migration to the US: Push factors https://brown.kanopystreaming.com/playlist/236107
- Putting down New York Roots https://brown.kanopystreaming.com/playlist/236272
- Racism & conflict in a growing community https://brown.kanopystreaming.com/playlist/236275
- Rita Moreno & West Side Story https://brown.kanopystreaming.com/playlist/236279
To view more from the 6-part series The Latino Americans, visit the Kanopy streaming video database on Brown University Library website.
Images
- From: Luna and ArtStor (Need to be logged into VPN to view)
- See above entries for Centro Voices.
- Showcase: The Puerto Rican Diaspora
Readings (Available Online)
Culture, immigration, identity, food, and family
- Belonging to Puerto Rico and America New York Puerto Rican children’s developing conceptualization of their own cultural group
McNamee, Abigail Stahl. Belonging to Puerto Rico and America: New York Puerto Rican Children’s Developing Conceptualization of Their Own Cultural Group. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009. - Eating Puerto Rico a history of food, culture, and identity, Ortiz Cuadra, Cruz M, and Russ Davidson. Eating Puerto Rico: a History of Food, Culture, and Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
- Portable Roots: Latin New Yorker Community Building and the Meanings of Women’s Return Migration in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1960-2000, Findlay, E. J. “Portable Roots: Latin New Yorker Community Building and the Meanings of Women’s Return Migration in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1960-2000.” Caribbean Studies 37.2 (2009): 3-43. Project MUSE. Web. 18 May. 2016. <https://muse.jhu.edu/>.
Biography and Memoir
- Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist
Valle Ferrer, Norma. Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist. New York: P. Lang, 2006. - When I was Puerto Rican [a memoir]
Santiago, Esmeralda. When I Was Puerto Rican. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Fiction and Poetry
- The Young Lords: A Reader
Enck-Wanzer, Darrel. The Young Lords: a Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2010. - La Peregrinación de Bayoán.
Hostos, Eugenio M, Julio C. López, Calderín V. Quiles, and Ramos P. Alvarez. La Peregrinación De Bayoán: Diario. San Juan: Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1988. - La Bodega Sold Dreams, Piñero, Miguel. La Bodega Sold Dreams. Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press, 1980.
Newspapers
- Gazeta de Puerto-Rico (1837-1887) Available to the Brown Community through the Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980) database
- El nuevo día (2005-present) Available to the Brown Community through the Latin American Newsstand database
- Puerto Rico en marcha (1951-1969) Available to the Brown Community through the Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980) database
- The San Juan star (2005-2008) Available to the Brown Community through Access World News Research Collection
Puerto Rican Studies (Online Resources)
- Centro Voices. Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Hunter College. CUNY. New York.
http://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/centrovoices/- Pastor, Nestor David. One Year Later: The Diaspora Poem That Went Viral. Centro Voices.
- — . Puerto Rican Millennials Join The Diaspora. Centro Voices.
Books in Print
- Algarín, Miguel, and Bob Holman. Aloud : Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. New York: H. Holt, 1994. (Brown Library link)
- Buitrago Ortiz, Carlos. Esperanza: an Ethnographic Study of a Peasant Community In Puerto Rico. Tucson: Published for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research by University of Arizona Press, 1973. (Brown Library link)
- De, Jesús J., ed. Growing Up Puerto Rican: An Anthology. New York: Morrow, 1997. (Brown Library link)
- Ferré, Rosario. Eccentric Neighborhoods. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1998. (Brown Library link)
- —. The House on the Lagoon. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995. (Brown Library link)
- Flor, Juan, ed. Divided Arrival: Narratives of the Puerto Rican Migration, 1920-1950. New York: Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, The City University of New York, 1998. (Brown Library link)
- Lewis, Oscar. La Vida: a Puerto Rican Family In the Culture of Poverty–San Juan and New York. New York: Random House, 1966. (Brown Library link)
- Melendez, Miguel. We took the streets: fighting for Latino rights with the Young Lords. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003. (Brown Library link)
- Pietri, Pedro. “Puerto Rican Obituary.” Herencia: the anthology of Hispanic literature of the United States. Ed. Nicolás Kanellos. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. (Brown Library link)
- Soto, Pedro Juan. “Scribbles.” Herencia: the anthology of Hispanic literature of the United States. Ed. Nicolás Kanellos. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. (Brown Library link)
- Thomas, Piri. Down These Mean Streets. New York: Knopf, 1967. (Brown Library link)
- —. “Seven Long Times.” Prison writing in 20th-century America. Ed. H. Bruce Franklin. New York: Penguin Books, 1998. (Brown Library link)
- Torregrosa, Luisita López. The Noise of Infinite Longing: a Memoir of a Family and an Island. New York: Rayo/HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. (Brown Library Link)
- Vega, Marta Moreno. When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing up Nuyorican in el Barrio. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. (Brown Library link)