BORICUAS IN GOTHAM
Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New
York City
Wednesday, December 8,
2004
6:00 pm
(followed by a book signing reception)
PRLDEF Conference
Room
99 Hudson Street, 14th
Floor (near Franklin Street in Manhattan; #1 or 9
subways)
This forum will critically
examine issues in the writing of the history of the Puerto Rican community in
New York City as presented in the newly-published book, Boricuas in Gotham:
Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City -- Essays in Honor of Dr.
Antonia Pantoja (Princeton, NJ: Marcus Weiner Publishers,
2004).
Boricuas in Gotham,
edited by Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Angelo Falc—n and Felix Matos-Rodriguez, attempts to recover that
history from 1945 to the present through the writings of leading scholars in
the field. The bookâs contributors are: Jose Cruz (SUNY-Albany), Angelo
Falcon
(PRLDEF and Columbia University), Fernando Ferrer (NYC Mayoral Candidate),
Gabriel Haslip-Viera (City College of New York), Antonia Pantoja, Francisco
Rivera-Batiz (Columbia University and the Russell Sage Foundation), Clara
Rodriguez (Fordham University), Virginia S‡nchez-Korrol (Brooklyn College) and
Ana Celia Zentella (University of California-San Diego).
A panel of
respected experts has been invited to critique the book and discuss its
implications for the Puerto Rican community and New York City. These
are:
Juan Flores (Hunter
College; author of From Bomba to Hip Hop)
Lillian Jimenez
(Latino Educational Media Center)
Ed Morales
(freelance writer; author of Living in Spanglish)
Walter Stafford
(New York University and the Roundtable of Institutions of People of
Color)
John Kuo Wei Tchen
(New York University)
Lillian Jimenez will be
showing clips from her documentary, "Antonia Pantoja: Abriendo
Caminos," chronicling the Puerto Rican community's educational and
language rights struggles in New York. The documentary features interviews
with Dr. Antonia Pantoja and other members of the Puerto Rican community from
the 1950s to the early 1970s. It includes rarely seen archival footage and
never-before-seen 8mm home movies of the era.
This IPR Policy
Forum is organized by the PRLDEF Institute for Puerto Rican Policy, and
co-sponsored by the New York Regional Office of the Puerto Rican Federal
Affairs Administration (PRFAA), the Centro de Estudios
Puertorriquenos at Hunter College, the
Latin American and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Program at the City College of
New York, and Marcus Weiner Publishers.
Please RSVP with Myra Y.
Estepa at [log in to unmask] or
212-739-7499.
Angelo Falcon
Senior
Policy Executive
Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education
Fund
99 Hudson Street, 14th Floor New York, NY
10013
212-739-7516 Fax: 212-431-4276
E-mail:
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Website:<http://prldef.org/policy.htm>
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Degetau