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Mining The Meaning Of Collective Memory And Imagination: The Construction Of Identity In The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Courtney Hooper May 2006

Mining The Meaning Of Collective Memory And Imagination: The Construction Of Identity In The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Courtney Hooper

Cultural Studies Capstone Papers

This project illuminates the relationship between cultural resistance, cultural production, and cultural identity in the poetry of Puerto Ricans in New York (“Nuyoricans”). Through textual analysis, informal interviews, and participant observation conducted in the South Bronx, this project is interested in how the descriptions of the island as “home” are used to mediate a cultural or ethnic identity, particularly amongst a people who do not live there, or perhaps never have. While the construction of an ethnic identity and a conceptual homeland in a diasporic community has been studied in past research, the intention here is to elaborate upon the …


The Grizzly, April 6, 2006, Ali Wagner, Bart Brooks, Dan Lamson, Allison Emery, Alexis Witt, Johanna Engel, Cecily Macconchie, Lane Taylor, Katie Perkins, Cori Turkowski, Ashley Higgins, Sonia N. Gonzalez, Jay Repko, Michael Graham Apr 2006

The Grizzly, April 6, 2006, Ali Wagner, Bart Brooks, Dan Lamson, Allison Emery, Alexis Witt, Johanna Engel, Cecily Macconchie, Lane Taylor, Katie Perkins, Cori Turkowski, Ashley Higgins, Sonia N. Gonzalez, Jay Repko, Michael Graham

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Gerlach and Murphy Embroiled in Plagiarism Controversy • Edible Book Festival 2006 • Poem-palooza: From Slammers to Dead Poets • Tradition Brings Old and New Friends Together • Competing for a Good Cause • A Taste of Tantric • Once Upon a Time in France • Opinions: Standardized Testing for Colleges?; Drawing the Line: Moral Predicament of Abortion • Playoff Bound in 2006? • Noah Builds Ark Around Baby Gators