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Additional resources for this issue of History Now
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Bridging the Caribbean: Puerto Rican Roots in Nineteenth Century America
For general background on Hispanic immigration from the
Caribbean and Central America to the United States, try
these books:
Duignan, Peter, and L. H. Gann. The Spanish Speakers
In The United States (Lanham: University Press of
America, c1998).
González, Juan. Harvest Of Empire: A History
Of Latinos In America (New York: Viking, 2000).
Gutierrez, David G., ed,The Columbia History Of Latinos
In The United States Since 1960 (New York:Columbia
University Press, c2004).
Olmos, Margarite Fernández and Augenbraum, Harold,
eds., The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition
From 1542 To The Present (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1999).
Ruiz, Vicki L., and Korrol, Virginia Sànchez, eds.,
Latina Legacies: Identity,
Biography and Community (Oxford University Press,
2005).
For more information on the “Recovering the U.S.
Hispanic Literary Heritage” initiative, go to their
website::
http://www.arte.uh.edu/recovery/index.aspx
You may find these “notes” on Vega’s
Memoirs by Rolando Romero of the University of
Illinois useful:
http://www.sip.uiuc.edu/rromero/notes/vega.htm
The story of Cuban-American cigar workers in the United
States has been the subject of considerable media attention.
First there was this television production now available
on video:
Living In America: One Hundred Years Of Ybor City.
Producer/ Director: Gayle Jamison. New York, NY Filmakers
Library, 1987.
More recently, Nilo Cruz, a young Cuban-American playwright,
won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Anna in the Tropics,
a drama about Cuban cigar-factory workers and the lector
or “reader” in their Florida factory in 1930.
The Pulitzer Prize website gives a summary of the play’s
plot and a brief biography of its author, and the website
of the New Theatre, the first company to produce the play,
provides additional information:
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2003/drama/
http://www.new-theatre.org/pulitzer.htm
A printed edition of the play is available in either English
or Spanish from the New York Theatre Communications/ Consortium
Book Sales and Distribution (http://www.cbsd.com/).
The Arena Stage Company in Washington, D.C., prepared
this useful website suggesting ways to use the play in
the classroom:
http://www.arenastage.org/community/education/ project_enrichment/archive_files/2004_05/cc_anna_tropics.pdf
For additional material on Hispanic Americans in the Civil
War, you can use the online text of The Woman In Battle:
A Narrative Of The Exploits, Adventures, And Travels Of
Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known As Lieutenant
Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army (Richmond:
Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1876) at:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/velazquez/menu.html
For a brief biography of Velazquez and links to other
websites about her, see the online chapter of a text from
Clara E. Rodriguez’s “Puerto Ricans: Immigrants
and Migrants” in the "Americans All" website:
http://www.americansall.com/PDFs/02-americans-all/9.9.pdf
This resource provides links to Jose Martí pages
on the Web:
http://members.aol.com/josemarticuba/index1.html
For good background in all aspects of Puerto Rican history
and culture, go to the El Boricua website, and make sure
to check out the lesson plans:
http://www.elboricua.com/
Finally, here are a few printed resources in addition
to those listed by Professor Sánchez Korrol:
Pérez y González, Maria E. Puerto Ricans
in the United States (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 2000).
The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary History. Edited
by Kal Wagenheim and Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim
(Princeton: M. Wiener Publishers, c1994).
Cordasco, Francesco. The Puerto Ricans, 1493-1973;
A Chronology & Fact Book. (Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.:
Oceana Publications, 1973).
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances. Boricua Pop Puerto
Ricans And The Latinization Of American Culture (New
York: New York University Press, c2004).
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