Puerto Rico no es un desastre natural
FRANCES NEGRÓN-MUNTANER Sep 29, 2017 “La actual crisis puertorriqueña no es un desastre estrictamente ‘natural’. Más bien, es un síntoma de su subordinación política y económica. Un territorio no...
View ArticlePuerto Rico was undergoing a humanitarian crisis long before Hurricane Maria
FRANCES NEGRÓN-MUNTANER SEP 29, 2017 Even after the former governor, Alejandro García Padilla, announced in 2015 that Puerto Rico’s $120 billion debt was “unpayable,” many refused to see the island’s...
View ArticleThe Last Emperor
By FRANCES NEGRÓN-MUNTANER Oct. 3, 2016 Given his attitude and larger context of U.S. control, many are viewing Trump’s visit as that of an emperor surveying his overseas subjects rather than the...
View ArticleThe Crisis in Puerto Rico Is a Racial Issue. Here’s Why.
FRANCES NEGRÓN-MUNTANER Oct. 12 2017 Last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper interviewed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and asked if he thought President Donald Trump’s punishing response to hurricane-ravaged Puerto...
View ArticleArchive Documenting Puerto Rico’s Past Sheds Light on Its Present
GARY SHAPIRO October 09, 2017 Puerto Ricans wait in line for food distributed by a federal agency. A child lies in a municipal hospital bed. These could be images of the destruction wrought on Puerto...
View ArticleEl español pierde fuerza como seña de identidad latina en EE UU
JESÚS RUIZ MANTILLA Madrid 3 DIC 2017 – 16:47 CET En Estados Unidos, no es crucial el idioma para conformar la creciente identidad latina del siglo XXI. No por el hecho de hablar inglés los hispanos y...
View ArticleIn Decades-Old Photos, Parallels to Puerto Rico’s Rudimentary Reality
By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ NOV. 27, 2017 Two women in San Juan struggle to carry pails filled from a public faucet after the water system collapsed. A group of men in Cabo Rojo, a town in southwestern...
View ArticleOur Fellow Americans
BY FRANCES NEGRON-MUNTANER January 10, 2018 Nearly four months after Hurricane Maria obliterated the entire electrical grid, destroyed or damaged 472,000 homes, and killed at least sixty-four people in...
View ArticleBlackout: What Darkness Illuminated in Puerto Rico
by FRANCES NEGRÓN-MUNTANER MARCH 2 Almost immediately after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico this past September 20, the island fell off the grid. Advancing with winds in excess of 155...
View ArticleLife and Debt in the Caribbean: A Syllabus
View Syllabus INTRODUCTION april 20, 2018 More than one hundred years after enslavement, emancipation, and nation-building, many of the twenty-six countries that today make the Caribbean rank among the...
View ArticleInnocence Nevermore
Innocence Nevermore’ (From Mixturao and Other Poems, 2008) is a short video shot two weeks after 9/11 that features Nuyorican poetry legend Abrahan Jesus “Tato” Livaiera performing his poem ‘Innocence...
View ArticleLife or Death?: The Stark Differences Between Sanders And Biden On Puerto Rico
By Frances Negrón-Muntaner After a third primary day of losses, it is currently unclear if Bernie Sanders will stay in the race. This may have grave consequences for the US, especially territories...
View ArticleSTAYING ALIVE IN PUERTO RICO
More than a month into a government-mandated curfew that began on March 16, it remains unclear if the coronavirus outbreak in Puerto Rico will become another catastrophic turning point. Some believe...
View ArticlePUBLIC THINKER: FRANCES NEGRÓN-MUNTANER ON PUERTO RICO, ART, AND DECOLONIAL JOY
BY WENDY V. MUÑIZ (orginally published in Public Books) Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an innovative and multimodal thinker and artist, and a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia...
View ArticleWNYC: How West Side Story Culturally Defined the Puerto Rican Diaspora — For...
Last month, previews began on Broadway for the revival of one of the most famous musicals in history. Once again, the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks was renewed, and Maria and Tony have...
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