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🇵🇷Est. 1973 🗃️Library & Archive 📚Books, journals, reports 📝Free online course & curriculum 🎟️Exhibitions, workshops, events 🏆Winning TV show & podcast

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We are excited to introduce the 2026–2027 fellows selected for the third year of our “Rooted + Relational” research initiative. 🌿 Ana Castillo Muñoz, Hybrid Fellow (@estaesoficial) 🌿 Chayanne Marcano, Hybrid Fellow 🌿 Christopher Colón, Dissertation Fellow (@ph718) 🌿 Helen Maria Cristina Ceballos Viñas, Hybrid Fellow (@helen.ceballos) 🌿 Dr. Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo, Research Associate (@isaguzz) 🌿 Dr. Joseph Cáceres, Research Associate (@ joey.writes_) 🌿 Dr. Judith Sierra-Rivera, Hybrid Fellow (@voceseneco) 🌿 Maria Bear, Archives Fellow 🌿 Melanie Rodríguez Vázquez, Dissertation Fellow (@melanienashaly) 🌿 Mirella Aparecida dos Santos Maria, Dissertation Fellow (@mirellammaria) 🌿 Nitzayra Leonor, Artist-in-Residence 🌿 Dr. Wendyliz Martínez, Research Associate Under this year’s theme, “Black Cuerpas: Race, Body Politics & Culture,” this cohort of 12 scholars, artists and thinkers will explore how race, sex, gender, and body politics shape the histories and lived experiences of Boricuas. Throughout the academic year, the fellows will participate in weekly seminars and workshops under the mentorship of CUNY Faculty Presider Dr. Ariana Mangual Figueroa. Their research, spanning literary studies, archival curation, historical inquiries and performance, will culminate in a public symposium and an edited volume published by CENTRO Press in Spring 2027. Comment 🌿 to learn more about our fellows and their research! 01 Sep 2026

🗺️ Announcing the Archives of Puerto Rican Slavery Map by Black Puerto Rican Futures Whether you’re hoping to trace your ancestry, writing a book, or researching the deep history and legacies of Afro-Puerto Ricans, this map is an essential digital tool that expands access to primary sources related to the lives of enslaved and emancipated people in Puerto Rico. Drawing on knowledge developed over years of related research, this living tool brings together information about accessing collections related to the people subjected to slavery and its afterlives in Puerto Rico. Black Puerto Rican Futures is a three-year initiative that reclaims and restores Black Puerto Rican history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Comment 🗺️ and we’ll send you the link to the Archives of Puerto Rican Slavery Map and to learn more about the Black Puerto Rican Futures Initiative 22 Mar 2026

NOW LIVE! After three years in the making, we are proud to announce the Diasporican Educational Program, offering a new curriculum and a self-guided course to learn the social history of the Puerto Rican Diaspora across borders, language, identity, histories, and more! The self-guided course is: 🆓 Completely FREE – No payment needed, just your email. This is made possible by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). ⏱️ 100% Self-Paced – Learn anytime, anywhere. 📝 Multilingual Resources – Only fluent in English? We provide translations for all Spanish reference materials. 🛄 Beginner-Friendly, Deeply Rooted – No prior experience needed. Start your journey today or expand on your current knowledge. 📚 Culturally Grounded & Informed – Developed by educational experts and researchers at CENTRO, building on 50+ years of scholarship & research while utilizing archival materials, data reports, and more! 🖼️ Visual Storytelling – Dive into lessons with original illustrated videos narrated by Sonia Manzano, archival footage, and archival photos documenting the Puerto Rican experience! The adaptable curriculum can be easily integrated into your existing courses–either partially or as a dedicated unit. With archival materials curated for high school students and college-level classrooms, each unit includes: 📑 Ready-to-use instructor lesson plans 📝 Ready-to-use + customizable worksheets 📺 Original illustrated videos narrated by Sonia Manzano 🗃️ Multimedia + archival resources 📋 Source lists Comment 🇵🇷 down below and we’ll send you a link to get started! 📸 Illustrations by Eduardo Vargas Desa 12 Nov 2025

Want to learn more about PROMESA and its impact on Puerto Rico, but have no idea where to start? 🤔 In preparation for our upcoming symposium, “A Decade of PROMESA: Accountability, Good Governance, and Puerto Rico’s Future” on December 4th, we’ve put together a reading list for you! Learn more about what PROMESA is, the historical context and the implications and impact of this law to Puerto Rico. 📘 The Road to PROMESA: Inside the Largest Public Debt Restructuring in US History edited by Antonio García Padilla, Melba Acosta-Febo, and Juan Lara 📘Promi$e Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis by David Skeel 📘The United States and the Promesa to Puerto Rico by Maria de Los Angeles Trigo 📘Lo terciario/ The Tertiary by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera 📘Broken PROMESA: Why the United States Should Abandon Its Use of the Territories Clause to Control the Local Affairs of Puerto Rico by Julia R. Cummings 📘Puerto Rico and PROMESA: Reaffirming Colonialism by Pedro Caban 📘Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. by Harvard Law Review Editorial Board 📘The Perfect Storm: Puerto Rico’s Evolving Debt Crisis Under PROMESA by Tina Meng 📘Financial Oversight Boards in the U.S. Federal System: Insights from the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis by Mariely López-Santana 📘Reflections on Two Years of P.R.O.M.E.S.A. by David A. Skeel Jr. 📘Centro Journal 30, no. 3 (Fall 2018. Edited by Edwin Meléndez and Charles R. Venator-Santiago. 📘La Década Perdida: La verdadera cara de la Junta en Puerto Rico in collaboration by Right to Democracy, the Citizens' Commission for the Comprehensive Audit of the Public Credit, Sembrando Sentido, and the League of Cities 📘Legislar Bajo Supervisión Fiscal: Informe de Política Pública Revisada por la JSK by Liga de Ciudades de Puerto Rico 📘 PROMESA Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act by Rolando Emmanuelli Jiménez and Yasmín Colón Colón Comment 📖 to receive the link to RSVP! 14 Nov 2026

📚 Reading List for Week 9! Back with another weekly reading stack for Rooted + Relational! Next week the fellows will be discussing readings around Afro-Puerto Rican Realities. Lineup for next week: 📘 Angela Jorge - The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society 📘 Hilda Lloréns - Surviving Matriarchal Dispossession 📘 Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach - Afro–Puerto Rican Studies and Transgressing Epistemological Narratives: Facing and Surviving Anti-Black Racism in Puerto Rico 📘 Tanya Katerí Hernández - Too Black To Be Latino/A: Blackness And Blacks As Foreigners In Latino Studies What’s on your reading list for next week? 13 Nov 2026

¡Nuevo en Ricanwritings! ✒️ En este artículo titulado “Un acto de colaboración: Traducir por amor y por la cultura,” la poeta y educadora Yesenia Montilla entrevista a Willie Perdomo y a Mayra Santos Febres, ganadora del premio al mejor libro de ficción con enfoque latino en los International Latino Book Awards. La entrevista de Montilla se centra en la nueva edición de “Los éxitos esenciales de Shorty Bon Bon”, publicada originalmente en inglés en el 2014. Tanto Willie como Mayra hablan sobre el proceso de traducción y la confianza que tienen entre sí para colaborar en un proyecto tan importante. La entrevista menciona cómo las obras literarias escritas por la diáspora también forman parte de la literatura clásica puertorriqueña. ¡Comenta ✒️ para leer la entrevista completa y conseguir tu copia ahora! 12 Nov 2026

In our special two-volume issue of CENTRO Journal dedicated to The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition, you will find peer-reviewed research alongside creative writing, personal testimonials, and a deep exploration of women’s essential political and cultural contributions to these movements. In this article, the authors Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Margaret Power, and Daniel Strom discuss the Chicago chapter of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN). The article includes a timeline of the organization’s history and its events. The organization was a coalition between Puerto Rican and Chicano-Mexicano activists. It also explores the systematic oppression the group faced and its campaign to bring public attention to Puerto Rico’s colonial situation. Comment 📙 to get your copy today! 12 Nov 2026

Let’s talk over a cafecito! Join us to learn more about PROMESA! In preparation for our December 4th symposium, “A Decade of PROMESA: Accountability, Good Governance, and Puerto Rico’s Future,” we will be offering a free virtual session to learn about PROMESA (the Puerto Rican Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act), the context it was enacted in 2016, and the major features of its creation: the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico (La Junta). This information session will feature Alvin Velazquez, Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Bloomington and Mariely López-Santana, Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Come prepared to ask questions about what PROMESA is, why it was enacted, who it impacts, and what its brief but consequential history has been. This conversation is moderated by CENTRO’s Director of Public Policy, External and Media Relations and Development, Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Ph.D. Comment 📖 to RSVP! 11 Nov 2026

Grab your lunch and join us for a Library and Archive Lunch Hour! For decades, photography has allowed the Puerto Rican community to reflect our humanity, culture, struggles, dreams, and more on our terms. Co-founded over fifty years ago by photographer & social worker Roger Cabán, En Foco aimed to support this work and preserve the legacy of diasporic lens-based artists. Today, Roger Cabán’s personal photographic collection has finally been processed and we are excited to give you a sneak peek into materials documenting his professional and personal life. Join CENTRO Archivist Oscar Zamora in exploring this essential collection documenting life in New York City and Puerto Rico from 1960’s to the 2010’s. Comment 📸 to RSVP! 📸 Roger Cabán Papers . “Tio Diego in a Bodega.”:. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives, Hunter College, CUNY. 09 Nov 2026

📚 Reading List for Week 8 of Black Cuerpas: Race, Body Politics & Culture Here is next week's Rooted + Relational reading list! Our fellows will discuss readings around Black Geographies. Next Week’s Readings: 📗 Alex Moulton and Inge Salo - Black geographies and Black ecologies as insurgent ecocriticism 📗 Isar Godreau - Introduction 📗 Manuel Valdés Pizzini - El denso tejido urbano de los barrios Marina Meridional y Marina Septentrional 📗 Saidiya Hartman - Venus in two acts Be sure to keep an eye for our upcoming reading list throughout this semester! 06 Nov 2026

What is home? ☕ For many of us in the Diaspora, home is un municipio en la isla, a block in El Barrio, a kitchen that doesn’t exist anymore, and most of it lives in a shoebox of photos. For the past two years, archivists from CENTRO, the Dominican Studies Institute, and the Haitian Studies Institute came together to ask: what is home when your people never stop moving? Archiving Home: A Community of Practice Symposium Two roundtables with archivists and community archivists who are part of the diasporas they document, on how memory and belonging shape their work A workshop where you’ll turn your family photos into a memory collage, made with archival materials so it lasts, plus stations for zine-making, scanning, and DIY archiving. 📍Silberman School of Social Work | 2180 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10035 November 14, 2026 10am - 5pm 💌 Comment “🏠” below to get the RSVP link and come preserve your legacy with CENTRO! #newyork #diaspora #puertorico #archive #nostalgia 06 Nov 2026

In our special two-volume issue of CENTRO Journal dedicated to "The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition" you will find peer-reviewed research alongside creative writing, personal testimonials, and a deep exploration of women's essential political and cultural contributions to these movements. Today we are highlighting the article “Acho, recuerda before I Forget: unx Boricua en Gaza” by Libre X. Sankara. In this article the author discusses their experience as a humanitarian volunteer living in Gaza through a mix of conceptual analysis and the author’s own journal entries from Gaza. The text examines concepts like resilience, scholasticide, and analyzes the similarities between Puerto Rico and Palestine. Comment 📘 to get your Spring and Summer journal copy today! 05 Nov 2026

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