Two La Malinche at the Intersection of Puerto Rican and African American Cultures: Piri Thomas and Down These Mean Streets

2006 ◽  
pp. 39-54
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercy Romero

In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses—her family's house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city's vacant lots withhold. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient


1994 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith S. Brook ◽  
Elinor B. Balka ◽  
Thomas Abernathy ◽  
Beatrix A. Hamburg

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolynn Siegel ◽  
Jennifer A. Epstein

To examine whether there were any ethnic-racial differences among 144 HIV-infected gay men (47 Caucasian, 48 African-American, and 49 Puerto Rican) on psychological stressors related to the gay lifestyle, responses to the Gay Lifestyle Hassles scale were analyzed. The African-American and Puerto Rican men reported significantly higher scores on frequency of Gay Lifestyle Hassles and cumulated severity of Gay Lifestyle Hassles over-all than Caucasian men. The results suggest that HIV-infected ethnic-minority gay men were more prone to psychological stress related to the gay lifestyle than HIV-infected Caucasian gay men, which may have negative consequences for their mental and physical health.


2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e16033-e16033
Author(s):  
Margarita Irizarry-Ramirez ◽  
Rick Kittles ◽  
Xuemei Wang ◽  
Graciela M. Nogueras-Gonzalez ◽  
Jeannete Salgado-Montilla ◽  
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