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
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Justin Torres
“ This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about his own Paps, how he beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping p ...more ”
― Justin Torres, We the Animals

Luisa Capetillo
“ they call themselves patriots and fathers of the homeland. What idea of the homeland can they have? One that is egotistical, which begins and ends with them. They are everything. ”
― Luisa Capetillo, A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out / Mi opinión sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer

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