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The Love Of Neighbors: Rosario Ferré’S Eccentric Neighborhoods/Vecindarios Eccéntricos, Keja L. Valens
The Love Of Neighbors: Rosario Ferré’S Eccentric Neighborhoods/Vecindarios Eccéntricos, Keja L. Valens
Keja Valens
Rosario Ferré’s position in one of Puerto Rico’s most important families and her status as one of the island’s most prolific and most vocally feminist authors render iconic her critiques of Puerto Rican “free association.” But as they struggle to disengage the binary structures of postcolonial patriarchy that constrain them, the women of Eccentric Neighborhoods walk in on possibilities rarely admitted in Ferré’s extensive body of work: English, statehood, and desire between women. The appeal of the titular eccentricity of places and people in Eccentric Neighborhoods is a new order of decentralized parity and plurality, a Caribbean feminist democratic ideal. …
Americas And Caribbean Islands Union, Ruben B. Botello Jd
Americas And Caribbean Islands Union, Ruben B. Botello Jd
Ruben B Botello JD
Americas and Caribbean Islands Union
By Ruben Barrera Botello, JD
Immigration is a major issue in the United States today. U.S. Latinos often express interest in this issue because of its direct impact on their families, schools, jobs, communities and governmental affairs.
Latinos are Indigenous Americans whose ancestors suffered for centuries under European invaders and occupiers intent on stealing their lands and freedoms. Their native roots tie Latinos to Native Americans throughout the Western Hemisphere, traditionally, culturally and genetically. They remain attached, to their ancestral lands and freedoms, even though robbed of them by the foreign occupiers and their offspring. …