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: <[log in to unmask]>
Website:<http://prldef.org/policy.htm>

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