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Puerto Rico Inside and Out - Changes and Continuities in Recent Decades (Paperback, New ed.)
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Puerto Rico Inside and Out - Changes and Continuities in Recent Decades (Paperback, New ed.)
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Fernando Pico is Puerto Rico's leading historian and author of over
20 books in Spanish and two translated into English.Less known is
that he started his career as a columnist for the leading
English-language newspaper in Puerto Rico, the ""San Juan Star"",
from the early 1970s to the 1980s. At that time he was a
freewheeling young grad student and later a professor, and the
editor of the newspaper often cut out his more radical commentary.
Thus, Pico had to resort to oblique satire.These essays deal with
continuity and change in Puerto Rico, and constitute a delightful
San Juan reader from a thoughtful historian's point of view. The
themes range from Puerto Rican events observed from Paris, to
politics encompassing the harassment of Puerto Rican dissenters in
the early 1970's and the proliferation of referenda on the island,
to lyrical descriptions of the disappearance of rural landscapes
and cultural traditions. He describes bus riding etiquette and
documents how neighborhoods were changing. He talks to older Puerto
Ricans and records their descriptions and anecdotes, discovers old
picture books and reflects on turning points in Puerto Rican
history, ponders street names, and documents famous and forgotten
prisoners and prisons. It is a unique window onto San Juan's
wonderful cultural mosaic.
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