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Missing in Precinct Puerto Rico:
Book Four (Precinct Puerto Rico)
Torres's flat-footed fourth installment in his Luis Gonzalo series (after 2004's Burning Precinct Puerto Rico) takes a parent's worst nightmare as its grim premise: children are disappearing from the small Puerto Rican town of Angustias. Sheriff Gonzalo is distracted briefly by a red herring—Los Macheteros, a violent, fringe political group that wants independence from the U.S.—before he's filled with righteous horror at the true nature of the crimes. When Gonzalo's deputy runs down a suspicious car—a chase that ends with the paralysis of the driver and death of his young passenger—and finds child pornography in the car wreck, the lawmen discover that American pedophiles are kidnapping children as sex slaves.(Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly
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Puerto Ricans have a long history of migrating to and building communities in various parts of the United States in search of a better life. From their arrival in Hawai'i in 1900 to the post-World War II era—during which communities flourished throughout the Midwest and New England—the Puerto Rican diaspora has been growing steadily. In fact, the 2000 census shows that almost as many Puerto Ricans live in the United States as in Puerto Rico itself. Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity A collection of the essays on history, literature and culture by the most celebrated commentator on Puerto Rican and Caribbean culture in the United States, by the winner of the casa de las Américas award for his monograph on Puerto Rican identity. |
This handsome collection contrasts duotones Delano shot from 1941 to 1942 while working for the Farm Security Administration with photographs of the same places in the 1980s. They document more effectively than prose the island's transformation from an agrarian to a primarily urban culture. Heavy machines cut the surgarcane once harvested by oxen and farmers; women who strung tobacco leaves assemble electronic circuitboards; stevedores, barefooted and barechested when they hauled sacks of coffee and tobacco, now protect themselves with headgear, gloves, and safety shoes to handle manufactured goods. |
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In Stories from Spain/Historias de Puerto Rico, we've placed the Spanish and English stories side by side--lado a lado--so you can practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while enjoying the support of your native language. The book allows you to explore the island's rich history. It includes 18 well-known Puerto Rican legends that stretch from the dawn of creation to the twentieth century. These tales will introduce you to an array of characters as dynamic and colorful as the country that gave birth to them. |
In this brief, scholarly book, freelance journalist Rivera acknowledges Puerto Ricans for their contributions to hip-hop music over the past 30 years. She points out that while Puerto Ricans and African-Americans collaborated to create hip-hop in the early 1970s South Bronx and shared a ghetto-based entitlement, Puerto Ricans had to "step lightly through the identity minefield." For much of the 1980s and '90s, Puerto Ricans' "participation and entitlement" were questioned as hip-hop became more exclusively African American. |
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Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes. He offers a comprehensive and well-reasoned framework for understanding the position of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, the position of Puerto Ricans in the United States, and the position of colonial migrants compared to noncolonial migrants in the world system. |
