- Government of Puerto Rico: Office of the Governor
- Partido Nuevo Progresista
- Partido Popular Democratico
- Puerto Rican Independence Party - English (Spanish)
- National Puerto Rican Coalition, Inc.
- Puerto Rico Herald
- Dr. Pedro Albizu-Campos
- ASPIRA's Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
- La Pagina de Melba Miranda
- Comite Puerto Rico '98
- PRed - Antonio R. Barcelo
- Red Betances
- Frente Unido Pro-Defensa de Valle de Lajas
- Pro-libertad campaign 1995
- Puerto Rico is a Colony
- Puerto Rico status referenda
- Population Projections for States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995 to 2025: US Census Bureau
Books on PR Politics
The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora (Puerto Rican Studies)
Little attention has been paid to the Latino movements of the 1960's and 1970's in the literature of social movements. This volume is the first significant look at the organizations of the Puerto Rican movement, which emerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a response to U.S. colonialism on the island and to the poverty and discrimination faced by most Puerto Ricans on the mainland.
To combat these two problems, and drawing on a tradition of patriotism and social responsibility, a number of organizations grew up, including the Young Lords Party (YLP), which later evolved into the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization; the Pro-Independence Movement (MPI), which evolved into the U.S. branch of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party; El Comité; the Puerto Rican Student Union (PRSU); the Movement for National Liberation (MLN); and the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN). The Puerto Rican Movement looks at all these groups as specific organizations of real people in such places as Boston, Chicago, Hartford, New York, and Philadelphia.
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Although Puerto Rico is technically a territory of the United States, José Trias Monge prefers the unvarnished term "colony" to describe his homeland's difficult position. Spain ceded control of the island to the United States more than 100 years ago, and in that time Washington has continually avowed its desire to respect the wishes of the Puerto Ricans while systematically limiting its sovereignty.
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On the surface, identity politics appears to promote polarization. To the contrary, political scientist José E. Cruz argues that, instead, fragmentation and instability are more likely to occur only when the differences are ignored and nonethnic strategies are employed. Cruz illustrates his claim by focusing on one group of Puerto Ricans and how they mobilized to demand accountability from political leaders in Hartford, Connecticut. |
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First published in 1983, this book remains the only full-length study documenting the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States. Expanded to bring it up to the present, Virginia Sánchez Korrol's work traces the growth of the early Puerto Rican settlements--"colonias"--into the unique, vibrant, and well-defined community of today. |
Island Paradox presents the first comprehensive, census-based portrait of social and economic life in Puerto Rico. Island Paradox describes the many improvements in Puerto Rico's standard of living, including rising per-capita income, longer life expectancies, greater educational attainment, and improved job prospects for women, plus the devastating surge in unemployment and the process by which rapid urbanization and a vanishing agricultural sector have led to severe income inequality. Midwest Book Review |
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Puerto Rico arte e identidad /
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Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican "nation" must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. |
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