En el presente volumen

Año: 2010 | Páginas: 192

express your creativity

se dejan atrás: nos acostumbramos a que nuestras vidas sucedan entre multitudes de desconocidos de los que somos

The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico Vendedor_SandraNiaRodríguez En el presente volumenIn The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Melndez Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerged out of the 1898 US occupation. They did so by asserting themselves as citizens, producers of their own historical narratives, and learned minds. Disregarded by most of Puerto Rico's intellectual elite, these workers engaged in dialogue with international