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Ramos, Toni-Ann 1964. "Maintenance of Taino traditions within Puerto Rican culture". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278503.
Texto completoKemper, Keri C. "Power distance orientation in Puerto Rican employees in Pennsylvania". Thesis, Capella University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10241785.
Texto completoThis study expands upon Geert Hofstede’s theory that employees in high power distance societies will prefer and accept direction from their workplace superiors. Hofstede’s first two dimensions of national culture, power distance and uncertainty avoidance, are based in the results to questions related to hierarchical relationships. This and other studies into power distance orientation reveal significant country differences, but no previous research exists into power distance among Puerto Rican workers who have relocated to the continental United States. This dissertation addresses that gap with a qualitative, phenomenological study into the research question of whether there exists anecdotal evidence of high power distance orientation among Puerto Rican employees living and working in Pennsylvania. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in Pennsylvania with 15 hourly employees originally from Puerto Rico. In answer to the research question, no evidence of high power distance orientation is indicated through the analysis. Implications of this study include the potential for cultural shifts over time as a result of economics, politics, and technology. From the anecdotes, emerge themes of the importance of family and leisure time over status, the desire for respect and organizational justice, and a sense of comfort and familiarity with current supervisors and managers.
Perez, Matthew B. "Intersections of Puerto Rican Activists' Responses to Oppression". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275957393.
Texto completoMartinez, Bianca Noelle. "Puertorriquena Power and Testimonio| Puerto Rican Women's Fight for Reproductive Freedom in the 1930s through the 1970s". Thesis, University of California, San Diego, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10837874.
Texto completoThis research is on the ways Puerto Rican women fought for their reproductive justice. It covers the years 1930 through to the 1980s on the island of Puerto Rico and the city of New York. The fight was not always won in the streets or in the courts but also through everyday struggles to survive. There were multiple forms of resistance used in order to fight for control of their own bodies and for the lives of their children. Reproductive justice is not limited to the right to have or not have children but also the ability to exercise choice and freedom over the children you have, over your own body and sexuality. The resistance led by these women was in all the ways they fought against oppressive forces which limited their ability to exercise reproductive freedom. The research was conducted through archival records, secondary sources and an interview conducted with my mother to learn the stories of the women in my own family and how they reflect the history I had researched. Puerto Rican women dealt with overcoming a high rate of sterilization, migration to the United States where they were met with racism and hostility and the ability to rise up and organize to demonstrate their voices as a collective. None of this could have been gained without the drive to survive.
Santana, José. "An Absent History: The Marks of Africa on Puerto Rican Popular Catholicism". University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1500482261688046.
Texto completoDuBord, Elise Marie. "La mancha del platano: The effect of language policyon Puerto Rican national identity in the 1940s". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291753.
Texto completoMartínez, Ángel Luis. "Young, Gifted, and Brown: Ricanstructing Through Autoethnopoetic Stories for Critical Diasporic Puerto Rican Pedagogy". Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1445429195.
Texto completoSantiago-Saavedra, Fanny V. "Understanding the nature of Puerto Rican folk health practices through the healers perceptions and the somatic assumptions". The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1092853553.
Texto completoFernandez, Delia M. "From Spanish-Speaking to Latino: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in West Michigan, 1924-1978". The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437439370.
Texto completoBoe, Jeffrey L. "Painting Puertorriqueñidad: The Jíbaro as a Symbol of Creole Nationalism in Puerto Rican Art before and after 1898". Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4290.
Texto completoPérez-Padilla, Rita M. "De pura cepa: Seis cuentos de Puerto Rico, 1548–2017". Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1526397339724881.
Texto completoElkan, Daniel Acosta. "The Colonia Next Door: Puerto Ricans in the Harlem Community, 1917-1948". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1505772980183977.
Texto completoBalotta, Maria. "Como el cantar del coquí: Educators of the Puerto Rican Diaspora in the U.S. Describe What Resilience Means to Them". Ashland University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1304085552.
Texto completoBorges, Cristóbal A. "Vieques: Island of Conflict and Dreams". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4436/.
Texto completoBadillo, Vanessa. "The economic implications of Puerto Rican statehood". Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/597.
Texto completoRosado, Natalie. "An Unwritten narrative: The resilience of young Puerto Rican American girls". Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/23.
Texto completoThis thesis focuses on the lived experiences of adolescent Puerto Rican American girls who were born and raised in the United States. In the midst of the social problems and the attention given to these problems, the resilient nature of these young women is often overlooked. The sample consist of 18 young ladies between the ages of 11-15 (M = 12.2 yrs). The data for this research project were collected through two main methods – the Bicultural Involvement Questionnaire (BIQ) and semi-structured interviews. First I utilize social identity theory and the concept of social stigma to detail certain social problems and explain their reactions towards them. I then describe the coping strategies used by these young ladies to survive the social inequality they face on a daily basis. I have used the existing research on the colonialism of Puerto Rico, race/ethnicity, and cultural gender expectations as the foundation for my exploration on the effects of the interconnectedness of all three social processes on the lives of these young girls, and to gain a better understanding on the coping strategies these young women use to deal with these social problems. Although these girls express many ways of dealing with difficult situations, I write on four of the main strategies they utilize. The four coping strategies include: making use of their social capital, distinguishing themselves from others, promoting and preserving cultural pride, and understanding the differences in various social contexts. What has remained virtually unwritten, until now, are the ways young puertorriqueñas have learned to cope with the problems of an oppressive history, race/ethnicity, and gender expectations
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology
Logsdon, Zachary Thomas. "Subjects Into Citizens: Puerto Rican Power and the Territorial Government, 1898-1923". Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1588198503239923.
Texto completoFernández, Lilia. "Latina/o migration and community formation in postwar Chicago : Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, gender, and politics, 1945-1975 /". Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF formate. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3191767.
Texto completoRapp, Doreen Rivera. "A Narrative Study of Perspectives of Puerto Rican Doctoral Graduates". Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3606.
Texto completoCaronan, Faye Christine. "Making history from U.S. colonial amnesia Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican poetic genealogies /". Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3259634.
Texto completoTitle from first page of PDF file (viewed June 11, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196).
Javier-Vivoni, Leida Hines Edward R. "Access and choice in Puerto Rican higher education a case study /". Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1994. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9507283.
Texto completoTitle from title page screen, viewed March 17, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Edward R. Hines (chair), John R. McCarthy, George Padavil, Rodney P. Riegle, Anita H. Webb-Lupo. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-162) and abstract. Also available in print.
Wilkinson-lee, Ada M. "Health Care Utilization among Mexican-, Cuban-, and Puerto Rican-American Adolescents: Examining Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use". Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195162.
Texto completoViera, Vargas Hugo René. "De-centering identities popular music and the (un)making of nation in Puerto Rico, 1898-1940 /". [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3331262.
Texto completoTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 23, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4468. Adviser: Arlene Diaz.
Dávila, Isabel C. "The causes and effects of corruption in Puerto Rico". FIU Digital Commons, 2002. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2742.
Texto completoDiaz, Velez Jorge. "Una Mirada Dialectica a las Representaciones Discursivas de la Invasion Estadounidense a Puerto Rico en 1898". Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10278213.
Texto completoThe Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spain’s colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere, and represented the symbolic pinnacle of U.S. imperialism throughout the Caribbean and the Pacific. During this historical juncture, the U.S. launched the invasion of Puerto Rico and established itself as the governing power. My analysis of this defining event in Puerto Rico’s history focuses on the ‘discursive’ and ‘representational’ practices through which the dominant representations and interpretations of the Puerto Rican campaign were constructed. In revisiting the U.S. ‘imperial texts’ of ’98, most of which have not been studied extensively, it is my intent to approach these narratives critically, studying their ideological and political significance regarding the U.S. acquisition of Puerto Rico as a colony.
The ‘War of ’98’ has been typically represented as an inter-metropolitan conflict, thus relegating to a secondary place the contestatory discourses produced within the colonies. It is the purpose of my dissertation to examine ‘dialectically’ the cultural counter-discourse produced by the Puerto Rican Creole elite alongside the U.S. official discourses on Puerto Rico, concerning its colonial past under Spanish domination, the military occupation of the island, and its political and economical future under the American flag. With this purpose in mind, I chose to study four post-1898 Puerto Rican novels, specifically José Pérez Losada’s La patulea (1906) and El manglar (1907), and Ramón Juliá Marín’s Tierra adentro (1912) and La gleba (1913), all of which have been underestimated and understudied by literary scholars.
As a gesture of resistance in the face of the disruption of the old social order (that is, the old patterns of life, customs, traditions and standards of value) caused by the U.S. invasion and occupation of Puerto Rico in 1898, the island’s intellectual elite—most of which were descendant of the displaced coffee hacendado families—responded by fabricating an ideology-driven national imaginary and iconography that proposed a hispanophile, nostalgic, and romanticized rendering of the late-19th century coffee landscape (i.e. the pre-invasion period) as an idyllic locus amoenus, thus becoming an emblem of national and cultural identity and values against American capitalist imperialism, the ‘Americanization’ of Puerto Rico’s economy and political system, and the rapid expansion of U.S. corporate sugar interests.
This dissertation has two distinct yet complementary purposes: first, it examines critically the imperial/colonial power relations between the United States and Puerto Rico since 1898, while questioning the hegemonic discourses both by the Americans and the Puerto Rican cultural elite regarding Puerto Rico’s historical and political paths; secondly, it is an attempt to do justice to the literary works of two overlooked Puerto Rican novelists, approaching them critically on several levels (historical, literary, and ideological) and bringing their works out of the shadows and into today’s renewed debates around Puerto Rico’s unresolved colonial status and U.S. colonial practices still prevalent today.
Vásquez, Britzél. "Twilight". Scholar Commons, 2004. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1283.
Texto completoMERCADO, CANDIDO ANTONIO. "EDUCATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND ATTAINMENTS OF PUERTO RICAN HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS IN THE UNITED STATES (SOCIAL MOBILITY, PATH ANALYSIS)". Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183898.
Texto completoHamilton, Clare. "Puerto Rican Statehood and Republican Party Opposition : The Paradox Between the Official Republican Party Platform and Republican Party Representatives". Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-38416.
Texto completoHollander, Amy L. "Exceptions to Costa Rican Exceptionalism: National Identity, Race, and Nicaraguan Labor Migration in Costa Rica's Tourism Industry". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/181.
Texto completoSchwalen, Anja Margarethe. "American dream and German nightmare? identity, gender, and memory in the autobiographic work of Esmeralda Santiago and Emine Sevgi Ozdamar". [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1905.
Texto completoSifres, Fernandez Vincent. "Poderes, sanidad y marginacion| El colera morbo en la ciudad de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico a mediados del siglo XIX". Thesis, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico), 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3708252.
Texto completoEsta tesis doctoral gira en torno a las medidas disciplinarias que se establecieron antes, durante y después del embate de la epidemia de cólera en la ciudad amurallada de San Juan, Puerto Rico, entre los años 1854 y 1856, con miras a resaltar las nociones del poder, biopolítica, sanidad, higiene, marginación y desarrollo urbano. El análisis exhaustivo de las Actas del Cabildo de la ciudad de San Juan fue fundamental para determinar cuán preparadas estaban las autoridades civiles, militares y sanitarias durante el periodo de estudio. A través de su revisión, se observa cómo los cabilderos, atendían el problema de la presencia de los bohíos en la Capital, considerados como focos de contagio y propagación de enfermedades. Desde antes que llegara la epidemia de cólera a San Juan, las autoridades buscaban la manera de eliminar los bohíos existentes dentro de la ciudad amurallada. El uso de una biopolítica por las autoridades, entiéndase como “la política de la salud del pueblo”, justificaron y señalaron que estas viviendas representaban ser un peligro para la población sanjuanera. Algunos historiadores afirman que fallecieron aproximadamente 500 personas de diferentes “castas” en la ciudad de San Juan por el cólera. Según los datos obtenidos del Libro de Defunciones de la Catedral de San Juan los resultados son distintos. Toda persona fallecida por la epidemia de cólera fue enterrada en fosas comunes llamadas cementerios colerientos. La hipótesis planteada durante esta investigación establece que la epidemia de cólera fue el agente catalítico para crear pánico en la ciudad de San Juan y así ejercer la presión necesaria para eliminar los bohíos y a los habitantes considerados como focos de enfermedades contagiosas.
Cordero, Toledo Manuel Antonio. "La experiencia de los programas de retencion estudiantil en una universidad privada en Puerto Rico| Un estudio instrumental de caso". Thesis, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico), 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10133520.
Texto completoEl propósito del estudio se enfocó en conocer cómo funcionan los programas de retención. Utilizó un diseño instrumental de caso (Stake, 1995) y se delimitó en su alcance a explorar y describir la experiencia de un programa de retención, en el contexto de una institución universitaria privada en Puerto Rico (PR). Enfatizó en los procesos y experiencias del programa, interesados en mejorar el entendimiento del fenómeno de la retención estudiantil en el entorno de la universidad privada en PR.
Las preguntas fueron dirigidas a explorar y describir: los procesos y experiencias del programa que facilitan la integración de los estudiantes; condiciones que generan una ecología que facilite el éxito de éstos; mecanismos anticipatorios y de adaptación que se observan en ellos, y cómo son incentivados para responder a eventos que les afectan; y, aquellas interacciones en el campus y con el programa que involucran a éstos en su vida académica. La información se recopiló mediante grupos focales, y el análisis e interpretación, mediante triangulación de datos y secuenciación analítica (Stake, 1995), discutiendo y armonizando contrastes sobre la percepción entre los participantes sobre el éxito y contribuciones del programa.
Los hallazgos revelan: a) consensos sobre la contribución del programa para facilitar la integración de los estudiantes, mediante el apoyo para el manejo de la transición, el trato individualizado, la disponibilidad y accesibilidad de los servicios, ambientes de oportunidades, y el compromiso y liderazgo institucional; b) experiencias con influencias positivas en la retención, posibilitadas mediante interacción entre pares, contacto con profesores, involucramiento en actividades extracurriculares, grupos de apoyo e interacciones con el personal del programa; c) fuertes conexiones de los estudiantes con el personal, con profesores y compañeros de grupo para responder a situaciones personales y de riesgo; y, d) testimonios que demuestran las fortalezas del programa para involucrar a los estudiantes académicamente, para mejorar el desempeño académico y retención. Finalmente, se plantean contrastes entre los participantes del programa, acerca de asuntos que les resultan comunes, pero que mantienen apreciaciones discrepantes entre sí, las cuales deben tener consideración futura en el diseño e implantación de los programas similares en otras universidades privadas en PR.
Chaves, Gustavo Adolfo. "Tradición y ruptura en la poesía de Carlos de la Ossa". Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/247/.
Texto completoAbreu, Roberto Luis. "“THE BEST THING THAT’S HAPPENED IN MY LIFE”: THE JOURNEY TOWARD ACCEPTANCE OF ONE’S LGBTQ CHILD IN A SAMPLE OF CUBAN-AMERICANS AND PUERTO RICANS". UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edp_etds/67.
Texto completoAnderson, Jeremy. "Colonialism and Catastrophe: Hurricanes, Empire, and Society in Puerto Rico and Cuba". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2144.
Texto completoLópez, Nancy P. "Latin American Women's Perceptions of Divorce: An Exploratory Study of the Situation and Image of Divorced Women in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41283.
Texto completoMaster of Arts
Escondo, Kristina A. "Anti-Colonial Archipelagos: Expressions of Agency and Modernity in the Caribbean and the Philippines, 1880-1910". The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405510408.
Texto completoDobbin, Kristin B. "Co-Management and the Fight for Rural Water Justice: Learning from Costa Rican ASADAS". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/33.
Texto completoFonseca, Malavasi Marisol. "El agua cántara: incursiones de la belleza". Thesis, University of Iowa, 2014. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4630.
Texto completoWalker, Leslie Paul Jr. "Narrating Climate Change at the San Juan National Historic Site at the Community Level". Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5792.
Texto completoVaccaro, Jenanne. "Juan del Frasco, o la Compleja “Inbetweeneidad” de ser Puertorriqueña". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1581.
Texto completoRuiz, Mestre Hermelindo. "GUITAR ARRANGEMENTS OF SELECTED DANZAS OF JUAN F. ACOSTA, WITH NEW CONSIDERATIONS OF HIS MUSIC AND MUSICAL LIFE". UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/125.
Texto completoRyan, Angela Rose. "Education for the People: The Third World Student Movement at San Francisco State College and City College of New York". The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275416332.
Texto completoWood, Ashley Elizabeth. "El Reguetón: Análisis Del Léxico De La Música De Los Reguetoneros Puertorriqueños". Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/mcl_theses/6.
Texto completoAvila, Alex. "THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/394.
Texto completoCoto-Rivel, Sergio. "Le roman centre-américain contemporain : fictions de l'intime et nouvelles subjectivités". Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30031/document.
Texto completoCentral America attracted greatly the media attention during the 1980s because of the armed conflicts and the increasing interest in testimonies linked to the political vindications. Now is the time to question the paths taken by Central American literature twenty years after the peace agreements were signed in the region. This question is found at the beginning of the present study on which we try to comprehend in what way the contemporary novel is interested in the construction of new subjectivities and in new means of representation specific to fiction. Contemporary Central American literature presents itself generally as a space of great diversity. We can read in it an important questioning of the contradictions, of the social struggles, and of the dominant discourses of isthmian societies. These questionings are, in our opinion, articulated on the literary text thanks to the privileged position given to subjectivity. It uses different ways to define the contemporary subject with the purpose of confronting the reader to a series of statements, intimist as well as political and transgressive, which express a crisis on the representation of national and personal identities. How far can we consider that contemporary Central American literature shows an important displacement related to the positions of the subjects represented in the novels? In what way said displacements interact in a conflictive region, a region which still has difficulties to define its own identity? On this thesis we make an effort to delve in the analysis of the subjective positions and in the literary and philosophical strategies which allow the construction of new subject-characters, in a corpus constituted of novels published between 1998 and 2009 by the following writers: Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada, and Uriel Quesada. We are particularly interested in the narrative processes which relate intimacy and subjectivity with the representation of corporal spaces in the novels, as well as the geographical spaces and violence spaces. These elements will demonstrate new commitments and new discourses in a time that seems dominated by subjectivity
Vasquez, Cesar A. "A History of the United States Caribbean Defense Command (1941-1947)". FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2458.
Texto completoAzank, Natasha. "The Guerilla Tongue": The Politics of Resistance in Puerto Rican Poetry". 2012. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3498327.
Texto completoSecrist, Karen Serwer. ""Construyendo Nuestro Pedacito De Patria": Space and Dis(place)ment in Puerto Rican Chicago". Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/1140.
Texto completoThis dissertation explores the relationship between identity and place in the imagination, performance and production of post-World War II Puerto Rican urban space in Chicago. Specifically, I contend that the articulation of Puerto Rican spatiality in the city has emerged primarily as a response to the threat of local displacement as a byproduct of urban renewal and gentrification. I further argue the experience of displacement, manifested through territorial attachment, works to deepen the desire for community and belonging. Through a performance and cultural studies approach, this project works to track this recent history of Puerto Rican geographic and psychic displacement within Chicago as it is evidenced by various performative spatial interventions and manifested within the community's expressive culture.
My topics of study include the 1966 Division Street Riots, the Young Lords Organization (YLO), Humboldt Park's Paseo Boricua and spoken-word poet David Hernández. Through these interventions and forms of expression, I argue that physical, political, discursive, and affective claims are made to local territory, articulating a Puerto Rican cultural identity inextricably connected to urban space. In so doing, I aim to endorse the theoretical utility of concepts of "space" by highlighting the enduring material and metaphoric significance of place for Puerto Ricans, arguing against a tendency in contemporary Puerto Rican studies to equate circular migratory movement with transnationalism by virtue of its opposition to territorially grounded definitions of identity.
Dissertation
"Discovering Puerto Rican Art Song: A Research Project on Four Art Song Works by Héctor Campos Parsi". Doctoral diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17835.
Texto completoDissertation/Thesis
D.M.A. Music 2013