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Consequently, the New York City metropolitan area has witnessed a significant increase in its Nuyorican population, individuals in the region of Puerto Rican descent, increasing from 1,177,430 in 2010 to a Census-estimated 1,494,670 in 2016, [8] maintaining New York's status by a significant margin as the most important cultural and demographic ...
Puerto Rican New York poets, precursing the Café itself (1964-1974), [9] were heavily involved in political conversation and the poetry coming from these individuals leading up to the founding of the Café dealt with capturing their own overlooked history. It broke poetic convention and centered upon examining the concepts of identity and ...
Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55885-046-5; Flores, Juan. From Bomba to Hip-hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-231-11076-6; La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora.
However, in more recent years, there has been a significant resurgence in migration from Puerto Rico to New York and New Jersey, with an apparently multifactorial allure to Puerto Ricans, primarily for economic and cultural considerations; [39] [40] with the Puerto Rican population of the New York City Metropolitan Area increasing from ...
On Oct. 18 of that year, the U.S. took control of Puerto Rico and raised the American flag on the island — a decision with echoing consequences still felt 125 years later.
In June 1974, she curated an exhibition documenting slavery and Afro-Puerto Rican heritage called Aspectos de la esclavitud en Puerto Rico. [8] She served as director until March 1975. She was one of the founders of the Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA), which was created in 1975.
Algarín was born in Santurce, [3] Puerto Rico, and was educated and raised in a culturally-minded household. The love for all things involving culture always prevailed in his family. His family and he migrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City in 1950. [4] While there he received both his primary and secondary education. [5]
This Sunday, people from across the region will head to New York City for the 67th annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP). What's called "America’s largest cultural celebration" by the ...