¡Jíbara!

¡Jíbara!
Author: Carmen de Monteflores
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496930983

Novel set in Puerto Rico in the 1930s, concerning a rural girl and her mother's struggle to survive after moving to San Juan from the rural highlands.

Not English Only

Not English Only
Author: Jennifer Eastman Attebery
Publisher: Vu University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book examines American multilingualism.

In the Wake of Columbus

In the Wake of Columbus
Author: Frederick Albion Ober
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1893
Genre: America
ISBN:

The author's experiences from 1877-1872 as a special commissioner to the West Indies and sent by the World's Columbian Exposition. Ober covers where Columbus explored, and travels through the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Virgin Islands.

Tuning Out Blackness

Tuning Out Blackness
Author: Yeidy M. Rivero
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005-07-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

DIVA look at how blackness is represented in entertainment programming in Puerto Rico./div

When I Was Puerto Rican

When I Was Puerto Rican
Author: Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher: Palabra
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006-02-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780306814525

Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.