Word: rican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Luis Rafael-Sanchez, a prominent Puerto Rican essayist and novelist, would have served as a visiting professor next spring. Peter G. Schultz, a biological chemist at the University of California at Berkeley, was offered a tenured post by the Chemistry Department...
...excellent teacher," said Buso-Garcia, who has heard the author speak in Puerto Rico. "He's the best Puerto Rican author of our generation. He's an amazing writer...
This past year, two scholars who were scheduled to teach courses in Asian American and in Puerto Rican literature could not fulfill their teaching obligations. In the absence of the two professors, the courses were not taught...
...first section includes some enjoyable and disturbing stories about family relation ships. Judith Ortiz-Cofer's "Silent Dancing, for example, address the Americanization of young Puerto Rican women. Ortiz-Cofer creates a compelling, shocking vision of how these newly liberated women handle their traditional families rooted in the old ways. The familial tensions resulting from assimilation into American society forms the binding theme for these selections. "That is insubordinate. It is improper. It is disrespecting her teachers!!!" a father screams at one Alvarez characters after she reads him a speech she wrote for a school assembly; the student would...
...Gringolandia ("Land of the Gringo") section contains some of the most entertaining and touching stories. Piri Thomas recounts how he earned respect growing up where "sometimes you don't fit in. Like if you're Puerto Rican on an Italian block." Thomas gritty memoir recalls a childhood in the Bronx streets looking out for a "bunch of hungry alley cats that could get to their mouse anytime they wanted," "Mr. Mendelsohn" by Nicholasa Mohr recounts the story of the Suarez family through the eyes of a Jewish man watching his neighborhood turn into a Puerto Rican enclave. Nash Candelaria recounts...