Text: "Puerto Rican Obituary" by Pedro Pietri.
Act: The Young Lords Party 13 point Program and Platform.
I am interested in these topics because it portrays not only the injustice and sufferings of not only Puerto Rican people but the whole immigrant community that comes to the U.S.A. looking for the American dream; and what they find is racism, inequality and oppression. Trough the view of the Young Lords Party Program and the works of artists like Pedro Pietri, people can see the real truth about the importance of the immigrant community in the United States and how they are underestimated in many ways. Pedro Pietri also wrote"Invisible Poetry" (1979), "Traffic" (1980), "Plays" (1982), "Traffic Violations" (1983), and "The Masses are Asses" (1988).
Bibliography:
1.- The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960. Ed. David G. Gutierrez. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. p362-367.
http://go.galegroup.com.rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=RELEVANCE&inPS=true&prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=cuny_laguardia&tabID=T003&searchId=R1&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&contentSet=GALE|CX2536800100&&docId=GALE|CX2536800100&docType=GALE&role=
2.-Journal of Women's History, Spring2001, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p157
http://web.ebscohost.com.rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=4&hid=104&sid=68027870-47d4-4f4e-9e39-baa52119a6cd@sessionmgr113
3.-"Speaker inspires Syracuse students to take community action." Daily Orange [Syracuse, NY] 28 Sept. 2007. New York State Newspapers. Web. 15 May 2010.
http://find.galegroup.com.rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/gtx/retrieve.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&qrySerId=Locale(en,,):FQE%3D(KE,None,11)young+lords$&sgHitCountType=None&inPS=true&sort=DateDescend&searchType=BasicSearchForm&tabID=T004&prodId=SPN.SP01&searchId=R2¤tPosition=1&userGroupName=cuny_laguardia&docId=CJ169239373&docType=IAC
4.-Jennifer 8. Lee, "The Young Lords' Legacy of Puerto Rican Activism", New York Times, City Room blog, Aug. 24 2009.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/the-young-lords-legacy-of-puerto-rican-activism/?pagemode=print
1 comment:
Hi Jackelyn - What great images! Source #1 looks good for historical background, and #4 for the legacy of that group (a kind of 'afterlife'). Do any of your sources talk more directly about the poem? Can you explain a little more about what numbers two and three are: give the title of #2 and a bit of a summary. For #3 how does the immediate speech from 2007 relate to your topic?
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