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Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings -An Anthology
by Roberto Santiago
From the sun-drenched beaches of a beautiful, flamboyan-covered island to the cool, hard pavement of the fierce South Bronx, the remarkable journey of the Puerto Rican people is a rich story full of daring defiance, courageous strength, fierce passions and dangerous politics- and it is a story that continues to be told today. Long ignored by Anglo literature studies, here are more than fifty selections of poetry, fiction, plays, essays, monologues, screenplays, and speeches from some of the most vibrant and original voices in Puerto Rican literature.
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Morning Girl
by Michael Dorris
In alternating chapters, Morning Girl, a twelve year old Tãino, and her younger brother, Star Boy, vividly recreate life on a Bahamian island in 1492- a life that is rich, complex and soon to be threatened.
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Stories from Puerto Rico/Historias de Puerto Rico
by Robert L. Muckley and Adela Martinez-Santiago
Stories from Puerto Rico/Historias de Puerto Rico allows you to explore the rich literary legacy of Puerto Rico. It includes eighteen well-known Puerto Rican legends that stretch from the dawn of creation to the twentieth century. These tales will introduce you to an array of characters as dynamic and colorful as the island that gave birth to them. Animals, indigenous peoples, conquistadors, spiritual beings and extraterrestrials are among those who will make these pages alive for you! (Stories are in English and Spanish, side by side)
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TÃINO Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean
by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
This exhibition catalog is the first comprehensive English Language publication to explore the history, culture and art of the Tãino. Over the hundred ceremonial and domestic artworks and individual masterpieces are shown in new color photography: finely detailed and polished sculpture in wood; precious ornaments of shell and bone; ritual objects, stone pieces; and ceramics decorated with animals, birds, and intricate geometric motifs. Essays discuss the legacy of the TaÃno, the origin and development of their culture, and their art and mythology. The contributors are the foremost scholars of Pre-Columbian culture and art.
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Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years
by Fatima Bercht, Estrellita Brodsky, John Alan Farmer and Dicey Taylor
Rethinking Columbus draws together a rich chorus of multicultural voices, speaking to the misguided legacy of Columbus, the gold-hungry "discoverer" who stumbled in 1492 on the shores of the western hemispheres and changed its history forever. Rethinking Columbus will change the way you view Columbus and those who followed. More than that it will change how you view history in general.
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