This new and very important collection of essays reinterprets and updates the history of New York's Puerto Rican community and its leaders from the beginnings o

This new and very important collection of essays reinterprets and updates the history of New York's Puerto Rican community and its leaders from the beginnings o

In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive progr

Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have

We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with. Much less investigated is the question of what cities do with them, even