Puerto Rico


When I Was Puerto Rican
Olga Dies Dreaming
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
The Taste of Sugar
Puerto Rico: A National History
The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
The House on the Lagoon
Conquistadora
Ordinary Girls
The Rum Diary
Mundo Cruel: Stories (Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Fiction)
Las Madres
A Woman of Endurance
The Storyteller's Death
Silver Meadows Summer by Emma OtheguyWhen Carlos Closed the Street by Peggy MannThe Magical Closet Mystery by María Pérez-GómezThe Smell of Old Lady Perfume by Claudia Guadalupe MartinezTurning Pages by Sonia Sotomayor
MG & Puerto Rico
8 books — 3 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Hispanic Fiction
265 books — 96 voters

El país de cuatro pisos y otros ensayos by José Luis GonzálezSilent Dancing by Judith Ortiz CoferEscrituras en contrapunto by Marta Aponte AlsinaThe Cruel Country by Judith Ortiz CoferEl Arte de Bregar by Arcadio Diaz Quinonez
Ensayos y crítica puertorriqueña
32 books — 2 voters
The Rutland Mule Matter by Richard Lee CroninNobody's Children by WD OliveWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightApi's Berlin Diaries by Gabrielle Robinson
War History Non Fiction
15 books — 12 voters

La llamarada by Enrique A. LaguerreLa carreta by René MarquésMundo Cruel by Luis NegrónFelices días, Tío Sergio by Magali García RamisLa charca by Manuel Zeno Gandía
Literatura puertorriqueña
120 books — 14 voters

At its best, the Young Lords offered revolutionary ideals and examples of movement-building strategies and tactics, and tough, hard-hitting, and painful lessons from its setbacks and failures.
Iris Morales, Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976

Elizabeth Martínez
The oppression and exploitation of Latinos (like Asians) have historical roots unknown to most Americans. People who learn at least a little about Black slavery remain totally ignorant about how the United States seized half of Mexico or how it has colonized Puerto Rico.
Elizabeth Martínez, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

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