1. Mireya Navarro, Puerto Rican Presence Wanes in New York (originally published The New York Times; February 28, 2000) (Available on Texts-ERES)
2. Angelo Falcon. Detras Pa'lante: The Future of Puerto Ricans in NYC, (PDF file available on Texts-ERES).

Supplementary/Recommended Readings

Census Brief May 2001 (PDF file available on ERES).

If you don't have Acrobat Reader, this is the time to get a free copy. You will need it to read the essays posted on Blackboard. 

1. Carmen Teresa Whalen. From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies. chapters one, two three, four.(pages 1 to136)
2. Cesar Ayala, The Decline of the Plantation Economy and the Puerto Rican Migration of the 1950s (PDF file available on Blackboard).
3. Ramon Grosfoguel, Puerto Ricans in the USA: a comparative approach. In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (April 1999) Vol. 25 Num. 2 . (PDF file available on Blackboard)

1. Carmen Teresa Whalen. From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies. (Chapter five to the end, pages 137 to 248).

1. Gabriel Haslip-Viera, The Evolution of Latino Communities in New York published in G. Haslip-Viera et al. (eds.) Latinos in New York University of Notre Dame Press, 1993. (Chapter 1) pages 3-29) *

1. Felix Padilla. The Quest for Community: Puerto Ricans in Chicago. Originally published in J. Moores and R. Pinderhughew (eds.) In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate. (New York; Russell Sage Foundation, 1993). Copies on Reserve- Main Library
2. Gina M. Perez. An Upbeat West Side Story: Puerto Ricans and Postwar Racial Politics in Chicago. In Centro (Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Volume XIII, Num. 2 Fall 2001 Pages 46-71. (available on Blackboard and Centro-Library-third floor)

Supplementary/Recommended Readings

Special ISSUE: Puerto Ricans in Chicago. Centro (Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Volume XIII, Num. 2 Fall 2001 Pages 46-71. (available on Blackboard and Centro-Library-third floor)

1. José Cruz. A decade of change: Puerto Rican politics in Hartford, Connecticut, 1969-1979. In Journal of American Ethnic History, Spring 97, Vol. 16 Issue 3. (available on Blackboard)
2. Ruth Glasser. En Casa en Connecticut: Towards a Historiography of Puerto Ricans Outside of New York City. In Centro (Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Vol. 7 Num. 1 Winter-Spring 1995. Pages 50-59. Available on Centro-Library (third floor).

1. Iris Lopez and Davis Forbes. Borinki Identity in Hawai's : Present and Future. In Centro (Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Volume XIII, Num. 1 Spring 2001 Pages 108-125. (available on Blackboard and Centro-Library)
2. Norma Carr. Image the Puerto Rican in Hawaii. In Asela Rodríguez de Laguna (editor). Images and Identities: The Puerto Rican in Two World Contexts. New Brunswick. Transaction Books, 1987). Copies on Reserve- Main Library

1. Frances Negrón-Muntaner. Feeling Pretty West Side Story and Puerto Rican Identity Discourses. In Social Text 63, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2000. (available on Blackboard)
2. Luis Aponte-Pares. What's Yellow and White and Has Land All Around it? Appropriating Place in Puerto Rican Barrios. In Centro (Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Vol. 7 Num. 1 Winter-Spring 1995. Pages 50-59. Available on Centro-Library (third floor).
3. Ann Forsyth et al. Plazas, Streets, and Markets: What Puerto Ricans Bring to Urban Spaces in Northern Climates. In Landscape Journal. Vol. 20 Num. 1, 2001. (pages 62-76) Copies on Reserve- Main Library (also in Electronic Journals –EBSCO– at Hunter Library web site)
4. Juan Flores, Qué Assimilated, Brother... The Structuring of Puerto Rican Identity in Mary Romero et al. (eds.) Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. (Chapter 9: pages 175-186). *

1. Altagracia Ortiz. "En la aguja y el pedal eché la hiel": Puerto Rican Women in the Garment Industry in NYC 1920-1980. In A. Ortiz (ed.) Puerto Rican Women and Work. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996). Book available on Centro-Library
2. Essay to be posted on Blackboard (on Puerto Rican women in the labor market)

1. Clara Rodríguez. A Summary of Puerto Rican Migration in Challenging Fronteras (Chapter 5, pages 104-114).
2. Linda Allegro, The Political Economy of Welfare: Ethnic Succession and Low Wage Labor in New York City. (PDF file available n-line Blackboard)

Supplementary/Recommended Readings

Angelo Falcon, Puerto Ricans: A Profile for the 1990s

Sonia Perez and Eric Rodríguez, PUSHING POVERTY

1. José Cruz. Nosotros, Puertorriqueños: Contributions to Politics, Social Movements, and the Armed Forces. In Adiós, Borinquen Querida: The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Its History, and Contributions. Albany: State University of New York (SUNY) 2000.
2. Agustín Laó. Resources of Hope: Imagining the Young Lords in the Politics of Memory. In Centro (Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Vol. 7 Num. 1 Winter-Spring 1995. Pages 50-59. Available on Centro-Library (third floor).
3. Carlos Vargas. The Political Participation of Puerto Ricans in New York City. Forthcoming in Centro Journal. Vol. 24 Num.1 Fall 2000.

1. Ana Celia Zentella. Language Policy/Planning and the U.S. Colonialism: The Puerto Rican Thorn in English-Only 's Side. In T. Huebner, K.A. Davis eds. Socio-Political Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999. Copies on Reserve- Main Library
2. O. García et al. How Threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? In J. Fishman (editor). Can Threatened Languages be Saved? (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2001). Copies on Reserve- Main Library

Supplementary/Recommended Readings

1. Jorge Duany, The Mobile Livelihood of Circular Migrants Between Puerto Rico and the United States (PDF file available on Blackboard).
2. Jose Lorenzo Hernandez, The Nuyorican’s Dilemma: Categorization of Returning Migrants in Puerto Rico. In International Migration Review (Winter 1999) Vol. 33 Num. 4. (PDF file available on Blackboard).