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narratives, but in Puerto Rico it is the ultimate popular music. In talking about the folk qualities of plena music, there is evidence that Western African slaves were the first to perform plena music (Banning). These West African songs were often songs were often in call and…

Romeo and Juliet, except instead of the Capulets and Montagues, it’s the Puerto Ricans and the Anglo-Americans. The migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States in the 1950s led to an influx of new community members and as a result, another component of diversity in the “melting pot,” that is the United States. With the introduction of West Side Story came a new, yet unsatisfying, portrayal of a group of people labeled as “Puerto Rican Migrants”. West Side Story is a critically acclaimed film…

Both the novels Long Division and Invisible Man introduce the idea of perpetuating racial stereotypes in front of white people, yet they both have differing perspectives on this issue. Coach Stroud instructs City not purchase watermelon in front of white people, so that he does not reinforce racial stereotypes against their race. City plans to buy a watermelon for his grandma and his friend MyMy who comes along with him. However, when he tries to purchase a watermelon from his former coach,…

In a choice held in 1951 the general population of Puerto Rico embraced the bundle. The understanding gave Puerto Ricans self-sufficiency in inner matters, programmed access to U.S. citizenship, and direct access to the administrations of the national government. Puerto Rico would have full control of the legal and the lawmaking body. In 1967, when the matter of the protected status of Puerto Rico was because of be considered by the United Nations, another submission was…

Oppression against Native Americans has been the longest held racism in the United States. The horrors that Natives endure span hundreds of years from the first arrival of European settlers to the modern era in which they have to protest for their right to clean water. Native Americans continue to persevere and face tremendous challenges to cope with the disadvantages history has left them. To this day, Native Americans are the most harshly affected by relocation, institutionalized racism, and…

“Passing” was a story about a race that was there physical appearance to pass off another race. The story talks about two light skinned African American women, Irene and Clare, trying to pass off as white people. The story starts off by Irene receiving a letter form Clare, a friend of hers that she wants no part of. From here the story goes into a flashback to Irene’s summer vacation, when she run into Clare in the Dayton, in Chicago. They are both in an all white restaurant, which they got in…

Birth To begin, both of my parents were born and raised in the Dominican Republic, living about 30 minutes away from each other, yet they met in the neighboring island of Puerto Rico. Even though I consider myself Dominican, since both of my families are so, I was born in Puerto Rico. More specifically, I was born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, on Monday, April 14, 1997 at 9am in the Auxilio Mutuo Hospital. I consider myself to have a dual identity because of this, being part of two cultures at the…

Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920, Findlay offers a nuanced and compassionate discussion of the relationships between people of Puerto Rico and the meanings inscribed upon those relationships. Findlay is able to achieve this through her use of a wide range of types of sources, her careful insistence on breaking apart binaries, and her use of “discourse” in her methodology and analysis, which allows for a rich look at Puerto Rican culture in the colonial…

Puerto Rico is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea and the largest insular territory of The United States. As a territory of the U.S., Puerto Rico has many advantages for trade with the mainland while also posing complex challenges. As a territory of the United States, shipments between the two nations are free of import duties. The island has few natural resources and imports virtually all the raw material need to supports its manufacturing industry. In 2014, RB imported 186.7 tons of…

Have you ever wondered what a noble savage is? Noble savage is a person who is naturally a good person of humanity and free from the corruption of the influenced civilization. Magua is a Native American who was born a Huron, but raised by the Mohawks and later on was enslaved by them. Magua is a Native American who also wanted revenge on the “grey hair”.The grey hair is a British commander Monroe. Magua is a person filled with anger and wants revenge for what the “grey hair” has done to him and…