Article: RUNNING TO AMERICA DOESN'T BRING PUERTO RICAN HER DREAM.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

Article: Puerto Rican elementary school-age children: ...
Social Work in Education;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...The educational challenges facing Puerto Rican children and their families has been ... Epstein,1995; Kozol, 1991). Puerto Rican children have an exceedingly high probability ... economic, and social well-being of the Puerto Rican community (Solis, 1995). School ...

Article: Puerto Rican Film Series Kicks off This Weekend
Extra;  August 5, 2009 ;     493 words ...The Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture (IPRAC) presents the Puerto Rican Film Series 2009, an outdoor film festival, showcasing films by new and established Puerto Rican directors. The Puerto Rican Film Series kicks ...

Article: The Puerto Rican danza.(origins, history of music ...
Latin Beat Magazine;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... national anthem and nothing arouses a Puerto Rican's patriotic fervor more than ... must be clearly identified as a Puerto Rican danza, because there are other varieties. The ancestry of the Puerto Rican danza can be traced back to the ...

Article: Lorain's Puerto Rican community to be spotlighted ...
La Prensa;  October 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Association selected the city's vibrant Puerto Rican community to be the Spotlight community ... committee of activists will be giving the Puerto Rican community a wake up-call. "The clock ... Barrios, chairman and co-founder of the Puerto Rican Culture Committee (PRCC). The group ...

Article: New group seeks to promote Puerto Rican arts and ...
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  July 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... unveil itself today plans to promote Puerto Rican culture, music and arts. Known as the Center for Puerto Rican Culture in Deltona, the group is a ... Rivera, president of the Center for Puerto Rican Culture in Deltona. The new Deltona ...

Article: Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican ...
Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Reyes Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature Gainesville: University ... island but also in the work of writers of Puerto Rican background writing in the United States. In Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature, Israel Reyes focuses his ...

Article: VIVA PUERTO RICO: CUNY Center Examines Puerto Rican ...
The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education;  August 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... VIVA PUERTO RICO: CUNY Center Examines Puerto Rican Influence and Issues "If you walk down ... Rodrguez, director for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at CUNY's Hunter College ... sensation, led the city's 44th annual Puerto Rican Day parade of marchers and floats earlier ...