puerto Ricans at the Dawn of New Millennium The Stories I Read to the Children Selected, Edited and Biographical Introduction by Lisa Sánchez González The Stories I Read to the Children documents, for the very first time, Pura Belpré’s contributions to North Puerto Ricans at American, Caribbean, and Latin American literary and library history. Thoroughly researched but clearly written, this study is scholarship that is also accessible to general readers, students, and teachers. Pura Belpré (1899-1982) is one of the most important public intellectuals in the history of the Puerto Rican diaspora. A children’s librarian, author, folklorist, translator, storyteller, and puppeteer who began her career the Dawn of the during the Harlem Renaissance and the formative decades of The New York Public Library, Belpré is also the earliest known Afro-Caribeña contributor to American literature. Soy Gilberto Gerena Valentín: New Millennium memorias de un puertorriqueño en Nueva York Edición de Carlos Rodríguez Fraticelli Gilberto Gerena Valentín es uno de los personajes claves en el desarrollo de la comunidad puertorriqueña Edwin Meléndez and Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Editors en Nueva York. Gerena Valentín participó activamente en la fundación y desarrollo de las principales organizaciones puertorriqueñas de la postguerra, incluyendo el Congreso de Pueblos, el Desfile Puertorriqueño, la Asociación Nacional Puertorriqueña de Derechos Civiles, la Fiesta Folclórica Puertorriqueña y el Proyecto Puertorriqueño de Desarrollo Comunitario. Durante este periodo también fue líder sindical y comunitario, Comisionado de Derechos Humanos y concejal de la Ciudad de Nueva York. En sus memorias, Gilberto Gerena Valentín nos lleva al centro de las continuas luchas sindicales, políticas, sociales y culturales que los puertorriqueños fraguaron en Nueva York durante el periodo de a Gran Migracíón hasta los años setenta. Gilberto Gerena Valentín: My Life as a Community Activist, Labor Organizer, and Progressive SOY GILBERTO GERENA GILBERTO memorias VALENTÍN: SOY de un puertorriqueño en N Politician in New York City Edited by Carlos Rodríguez Fraticelli / Translated by Andrew Hurley / Introduction by José E. Cruz Gilberto Gerena Valentín is a key figure in the development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States, especially from the forties through the seventies. He was a union organizer, community leader, GILBERTO ueva political activist, and general in the war for the civil-rights recognition of his community. Gerena Valentín York GERENA played an active part in the founding and development of all the major Puerto Rican organizations in the GILBERTO VALENTÍN: I GERENA MY LIFE AS A COMMUNITY postwar period, including the Congreso de Pueblos, the Puerto Rican Day Parade, the National Association for VALENTÍN ACTIVIST, LABOR ORGANIZER, AND PROGRESSIVE POLITICIAN IN NEW YORK CITY Puerto Rican Civil Rights, the Puerto Rican Folklore Festival, and the Puerto Rican Community Development GILBERTO GERENA VALENTÍN Edited by Carlos Rodríguez-Fraticelli Project. During this period he was also a member of the New York City Human Rights Commission and a I New York City councilman. Gerena Valentín was also a pioneer in the creation of coalitions with the principal African-American civil rights organizations, playing a central role in the mobilization of Puerto Ricans for the NY College, CEPR, Hunter Vargas-Ramos / Carlos Edwin Meléndez famed marches on Washington in 1963 and 1968 and in the New York City school boycott of 1964, the largest in the nation’s history. In his memoirs, Gilberto Gerena Valentín takes us into the center of the fierce labor, political, civil rights, social and cultural struggles waged by Puerto Ricans in New York from the 1940s through the 1970s. THE STATE OF PUERTO RICANS THE STATE OF PUERTO RICANS 2013: INTRODUCTION EDWIN MELÉNDEZ and CARLOS VARGAS-RAMOS Demographic Transitions: Settlement and Distribution of the Puerto Rican Population in the United States CARLOS VARGAS-RAMOS and JUAN C GARCÍA-ELLÍN Puerto Rican Migration in the 21st Century: Is There a Brain Drain? 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Forthcoming titles in 2014 Puerto Ricans at the Dawn of the New Millennium, Edited by Edwin Meléndez and Carlos Vargas Ramos AmeRícan Poet Historian: Essays on the Works of Tato Laviera, Edited by Stephanie Alvarez and William Luis Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in 19th Century New York by Edgardo Meléndez To request review copies, for submission of book proposals, or for any other information contact us at: Center for Puerto Rican Studies / Hunter College, CUNY . 695 Park Ave, E-1429 . 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