CENTRO Journal

Since its first issue in 1987, the journal has proven to be one of Centro’s most important links to the public. A multidisciplinary, bilingual, refereed publication that welcomes scholarly articles in the humanities and the social and natural sciences, as well as interpretive essays, interviews, fiction, reviews and art. CENTRO Journal is published twice a year (spring and fall) and a yearly subscription includes both issues.

Consistent with the multidisciplinary spirit that characterizes the journal, this issue presents a hugely diverse array of articles that illuminate various aspects of the Puerto Rican experience. 

Table of Contents

PAGE 4 – Puerto Ricans and Transnationalism: A Critical Empirical Assessment /CARLOS VARGAS-RAMOS

PAGE 50 – Puerto Rican Migration, the Colonial State, and Transnationalism / EDGARDO MELÉNDEZ

PAGE 96 – 100% Puerto Rican: Jennifer Lopez, Latinidad, and the Marketing of Authenticity / CARMEN R. LUGO-LUGO

PAGE 120 – INTERVIEW / ENTREVISTA – Writing Her Legacy: A Conversation with Maria (Mariposa) Teresa Fernández / JILL TOLIVER RICHARDSON

PAGE 132 – (Des)Articulando la negritud: codificaciones de raza en el cine nacional puertorriqueño / DANIA ABREU-TORRES

PAGE 162 – “This House is Not a Home”: Familial Conflict, Negotiation, and Bargaining in Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon / ELANA KARSHMER

PAGE 178 – Identification of Ramón Power y Giralt: Puerto Rico’s Diplomat to the 1812 Spanish Constitutional Court

DOUGLAS W. OWSLEY, KARIN S. BRUWELHEIDE, MARÍA A. CASHION LUGO, TERRY MELTON, AND M. KATHERINE SPRADLEY