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Colonization

June 29, 2022InColonialism Tags:2000s, colonialism, health, healthcare, history

How Is Colonialism a Sociostructural Determinant of Health in Puerto Rico?

June 29, 2022InColonialism Tags:2000s

Puerto Rico and PROMESA: Reaffirming Colonialism

June 29, 2022InColonialism, History, Recommended Reading Tags:colonialism, history, Puerto Rico, recommended reading

War Against All Puerto Ricans

June 12, 2022InColonialism, Videos, War Tags:colonialism, culture, history

The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States: A Postcolonial Migration? (2009)

June 12, 2022InColonialism, History, Women Tags:1800s, 1920s, history, Puerto Rico, suffrage

In Puerto Rico, Women Won the Vote in a Bittersweet Game of Colonial Politics

This is an image of a petroglyph, or rock carving in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. It sits beside the shore of Ensenada Honda (Deep Cove).

June 10, 2022InColonialism, Taino Tags:colonialism, culture, history, indigenous, precolonial, Puerto Rico, Taíno

What Became of the Taíno?

June 10, 2022InColonialism, Military Tags:1910s, 1920s, colonialism, Puerto Rico, war

Colonial Citizens of a Modern Empire: War, Illiteracy, and Physical Education in Puerto Rico, 1917-1930

June 10, 2022InColonialism, Women Tags:1920s, colonialism, deindustrialization, needleworkers, Operation Bootstrap, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Needle Workers and Colonial Migrations: Deindustrialization as Pathways Lost

Labor Movement

June 10, 2022InLabor movement, Sterilization, Women Tags:1910s, 1920s, 1940s, labor, Puerto Rico, women, workers

Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement

June 10, 2022InLabor movement, Women Tags:1930s, labor, Puerto Rico, women, workers

Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine, Eleanor Roosevelt

Military

Religion / Spirituality

Stories / Narratives

June 29, 2022InStories/Narratives, Women Tags:2000s

Disrupters:Three Women of Color Tell Their Stories

June 12, 2022InStories/Narratives, Videos Tags:culture, Puerto Rico, stories

Cafecito con William D. Caballero: Big Stories with Small Figures

June 10, 2022InSlavery, Stories/Narratives, Women Tags:1800s, 1900s, history, Puerto Rico, slave narrative, stories

Bound to History: Leoncia Lasalle’s Slave Narrative from Moca, Puerto Rico, 1945

Sugar Cane

June 10, 2022InSugar Cane Tags:1940s, labor, Puerto Rico, sugar cane, workers

Hacienda Mercedita

June 10, 2022InSugar Cane Tags:1800s, 1900s, 1910s, history, labor, Puerto Rico, sugar cane, workers

Central Sugar Mills

June 10, 2022InSugar Cane Tags:1800s, culture, history, labor, plantation, Puerto Rico, sugar cane, workers

The Culture History of a Puerto Rican Sugar Cane Plantation 1876-1949

Taíno

June 11, 2022/by GingieInGenetics, Taino Tags:DNA, history, Puerto Rico

Ancient DNA reconstructs the genetic legacies of pre-contact Puerto Rico communities

June 11, 2022/by GingieInGenetics, Taino Tags:anthropology, history, Puerto Rico

Anthropological genetic insights on Caribbean population history

This is an image of a petroglyph, or rock carving in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. It sits beside the shore of Ensenada Honda (Deep Cove).

June 10, 2022/by GingieInColonialism, Taino Tags:colonialism, culture, history, indigenous, precolonial, Puerto Rico, Taíno

What Became of the Taíno?

Vieques

June 10, 2022/by GingieInMilitary, Vieques Tags:ceiba, Puerto Rico

An Ancient Ceiba Tree Blooms Once Again After Puerto Rico’s Devastating Storms

June 10, 2022/by GingieInMilitary, Vieques Tags:1940s, military, Puerto Rico, US Navy, Vieques

From Sugar Plantations to Military Bases: The U.S. Navy‘s Expropriations in Vieques, Puerto Rico, 1940–45

June 10, 2022/by GingieInVieques Tags:history, Puerto Rico, Vieques

BRIEF HISTORY OF ISLA DE VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO

Women

June 29, 2022/by GingieInStories/Narratives, Women Tags:2000s

Disrupters:Three Women of Color Tell Their Stories

June 12, 2022/by GingieInWomen Tags:colonialism, Puerto Rico, women

The First Birth Control Pill Used Puerto Rican Women as Guinea Pigs

June 12, 2022/by GingieInHistory, Women Tags:culture, history, Puerto Rico, women

Herstory: 10 Puerto Rican Women Kept Out of History Books

June 12, 2022/by GingieInColonialism, History, Women Tags:1800s, 1920s, history, Puerto Rico, suffrage

In Puerto Rico, Women Won the Vote in a Bittersweet Game of Colonial Politics

June 10, 2022/by GingieInLabor movement, Sterilization, Women Tags:1910s, 1920s, 1940s, labor, Puerto Rico, women, workers

Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement

June 10, 2022/by GingieInLabor movement, Women Tags:1930s, labor, Puerto Rico, women, workers

Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine, Eleanor Roosevelt

June 10, 2022/by GingieInWomen Tags:1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, colonialism, Puerto Rico, suffrage, voting rights, women

Whose Legacy?: Voicing Women’s Rights from the 1870s to the 1930s

June 10, 2022/by GingieInSterilization, Women Tags:1930s, 1940s, Puerto Rico, sterilization, women, workers

The Dark History of Forced Sterilization of Latina Women

June 10, 2022/by GingieInColonialism, Women Tags:1920s, colonialism, deindustrialization, needleworkers, Operation Bootstrap, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Needle Workers and Colonial Migrations: Deindustrialization as Pathways Lost

June 10, 2022/by GingieInSlavery, Stories/Narratives, Women Tags:1800s, 1900s, history, Puerto Rico, slave narrative, stories

Bound to History: Leoncia Lasalle’s Slave Narrative from Moca, Puerto Rico, 1945

Puerto Rico: Periods

hands — How Is Colonialism a Sociostructural Determinant of Health in Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico has been experiencing a public health crisis since the 1990s, driven by limited resource allocation for preventive health care for residents of Puerto Rico, austerity policies in response to a massive debt crisis, and primary care privatization.
June 29, 2022/by Gingie

women — Disrupters:Three Women of Color Tell Their Stories
This essay is an amplified version of the presentation we made at the 7th Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues. Our aim is to story back into the world our first experiences and motivations for investing in suffrage and democratic activism.
June 29, 2022/by Gingie

Waiting_by_the_side_of_the_road_in_Puerto_Rico — Puerto Rico and PROMESA: Reaffirming Colonialism
With this dramatic announcement, Governor Alejandro García Padilla transformed the island nation’s long-simmering debt overhang problem into an international spectacle.
June 29, 2022/by Gingie

In Puerto Rico, Women Won the Vote in a Bittersweet Game of Colonial Politics — In Puerto Rico, Women Won the Vote in a Bittersweet Game of Colonial Politics
Puertorriqueñas’ fight for suffrage shaped by class, colonialism and racism—but even today, island residents cannot vote for president
June 12, 2022/by Gingie

Children in a company housing settlement, Puerto Rico. December 1941 — Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement
MILAGROS DENIS AND RACHEL POOLEY

In December 1898, at the…
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok in Puerto Rico – NARA — Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine, Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt, "Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine," 1934, Children and Youth in History
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

At work in the cane field, tying bundles of fallen stalks, Porto [sic] Rico Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print on stereo card stereograph. 1923 — Whose Legacy?: Voicing Women’s Rights from the 1870s to the 1930s
In 1990 I interviewed Puerto Rican women--feminist critics, sociologists, and writers--for a project on Caribbean women's discourse.
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

NSQIP_1 — The Dark History of Forced Sterilization of Latina Women
Between the 1930s and the 1970s, approximately one-third of the female population of Puerto Rico was sterilized, making it highest rate of sterilization in the world.
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

Puerto_Rico_–_Adobe_huts_&_plantation_LOC_14936362663 — Colonial Citizens of a Modern Empire: War, Illiteracy, and Physical Education in Puerto Rico, 1917-1930
The year 1917 marked a critical moment in the relationship between the United States and its Puerto Rican colony.
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

000505-N-6492H-551 — From Sugar Plantations to Military Bases: The U.S. Navy‘s Expropriations in Vieques, Puerto Rico, 1940–45
During World War II the U.S. Federal Government took over approximately 26,000 acres out of a total of 33,000 in the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, to build military installations.
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

fabrica — Puerto Rican Needle Workers and Colonial Migrations: Deindustrialization as Pathways Lost
The dominant narrative of U.S. deindustrialization opens with the Northeast as the definitive starting point for industry followed by a direct linear relocation to the South and then the Global South. I
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

Abandoned_Mercedita_with_tracks — Hacienda Mercedita
Hacienda Mercedita was a 300-acre (120 ha) sugarcane plantation in Ponce, Puerto Rico, founded in 1861, by Juan Serrallés Colón.
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

Sugar mill ruins in Guayama, Puerto Rico — Central Sugar Mills
The central sugar mill concept began in Puerto Rico with the establishment of Central San Vicente in 1873.
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

pexels-luis-quintero-1771217 — Give Them Christ: Native Agency in the Evangelization of Puerto Rico, 1900 to 1917
The scholarship on the history of Protestant missions to Puerto Rico after the Spanish American War of 1898 emphasizes the Americanizing tendencies of the missionaries in the construction of the new Puerto Rican.
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

Sugar Cane — The Culture History of a Puerto Rican Sugar Cane Plantation 1876-1949
The present article is an attempt to combine the analysis of historical documents with the use of data from aged informants for purposes of historical reconstruction.
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

Virginia Arocho Rodriguez 1920–2007 — Bound to History: Leoncia Lasalle’s Slave Narrative from Moca, Puerto Rico, 1945
by Ellen Fernandez-Sacco, Independent Scholar, Tampa, FL 33618,…
June 10, 2022/by Gingie

Research Resources

Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Centro is a research institute that is dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States and that produces and disseminates relevant interdisciplinary research. Centro also collects, preserves, and provides access to library resources documenting Puerto Rican history and culture. We seek to link scholarship to social action and policy debates and to contribute to the betterment of our community and enrichment of Puerto Rican studies.
Center for Puerto Rican Studies YouTube Channel
Centro is a research institute that is dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States and that produces and disseminates relevant interdisciplinary research. Centro also collects, preserves, and provides access to library resources documenting Puerto Rican history and culture. We seek to link scholarship to social action and policy debates and to contribute to the betterment of our community and enrichment of Puerto Rican studies.

Latina/o Studies Commons
The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Family Search
Record searches include, slave registers, births, deaths, churches, etc.
Ancestry.com
Requires a paid subscription. Ancestry® currently manages about 10,000 terabytes of data, including records detailing births, marriages, deaths, military service, immigration and much more.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.
The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.