Boricuas In Gothamed Puerto Ricans In The Making Of New York City

BORICUAS IN GOTHAMPuerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York CityGabriel Haslip-Viera, Angelo Falcon, and Felix Matos Rodriguez, EditorsThis new and very important collection of essays reinterprets and updates the history of New York's Puerto Rican community and its leaders from the beginnings of the great migration in the 1940s to the present time. The collection also honors the memory of the late Dr. Antonia Pantoja, who was perhaps the community's most important and influential activist and institution builder during this period.The book is organized in chronological order and includes chapters by noted historians, sociologists, and political scientists, such as Virginia Sanchez Korrol, Ana Celia Zentella, Jose Cruz, Francisco Rivera Batiz, and Gabriel Haslip-Viera. These chapters focus on issues of culture, demography, language, economic status, politics, and community organization. The volume ends with essays by Angelo Falcon and Clara E. Rodriguez that assess the legacy, current status, and future prospects of the Puerto Rican community in New York.GABRIEL HASLIP-VIERA, City College, CUNY, is the editor of Taino Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural Politics. ANGELO FALCON, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, is the author of numerous articles on Puerto Rican/Latino politics. FELIX V. MATOS-RODRIGUEZ, Hunter College, is the author of Women in San Juan: 1820?1868.Haslip-Viera, Gabriel is the author of 'Boricuas In Gothamed Puerto Ricans In The Making Of New York City', published 2004 under ISBN 9781558763562 and ISBN 1558763562.