Word: rican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only does the Mission Hill project provide for the children's academic growth, but it encourages cultural awareness. Stulberg says volunteers must occasionally deal with gang-related tension between Black and Puerto Rican children. The project is approximately equally divided between Blacks and Puerto Ricans...
Luis Rafael-Sanchez, a prominent Puerto Rican essayist and novelist, has been invited by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, and Xiao-huang Yin, a specialist in Chinese-American history, will teach in the History Department...
Rafael-Sanchez, who has taught at a number of American universities, focuses his writings largely on Puerto Rican culture and cultural history...
...more than anyone else, has made the sophistication of Puerto Rican culture available outside of the island," said Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris H. Sommer...
...SUNDAY, 100,000 PEOPLE RALLIED IN SAN JUAN TO send a message that needed no translation: they wanted to keep a 1991 law that made Espanol -- and Espanol only -- Puerto Rico's official language. But the next day, the Puerto Rican legislature passed a bill making both Spanish and English official languages in the U.S. commonwealth. Later, Governor Pedro Rossello signed the measure, saying, "Now we have two hymns, two flags, two languages...