CENTRO JOURNAL

SPRING 2025 • VOLUME XXXVII • NUMBER 1

WATER PROOF: OLAS DE MEMORIA

GUEST EDITORS: Sarah Bruno, Essah Díaz, Daniel Morales-Armstrong, and Jessica Marie Johnson

Introduction: Entre aguas/Between the Waters

Sarah Bruno, Essah Díaz, Daniel Morales-Armstrong, and Jessica Marie Johnson

Recuerdo: Blackness, Memory, and the Racial Contract in Puerto Rico

Shantee Rosado

Colorismo en la educación: colonialidad y blanqueamiento en textos escolares 

Isar Godreau, Mariluz Franco Ortiz, Gabriela Ortiz Laureano, Andrea M. Texidor Cintrón, and Rafael Capó

Pioneers in Their Own Right: Afro-Puerto Ricans at Tuskegee Normal School and Howard University

Milagros Denis-Rosario

Cimarrones, Rebels, and Plaintiffs: Strategies Enslaved Africans and their Descendants Used to Resist Slavery in Puerto Rico (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

Daniel Morales-Armstrong 

Forging Afro-Diasporic Bonds: Black Feminist Worldmaking After the Storm in the Greater Caribbean (1965-2017)

Kiana González Cedeño, Lauren Prince, Anais Couvertier, and Teona Williams

Lessons in the Water: Late Nineteenth Century Afro-Puerto Rican Survival and Ancestral Memory

Ashley Coleman Taylor

Painting Rematriation: Reflections from Year Ten in Borikén
Yasmín Hernández

BOOK REVIEWS

Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades, by Regina Marie Mills

Reviewed by Rebeca L. Hey-Colón

La otra Julia, by Mayra Santos Febres

Reviewed by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole: An Aurora Levins Morales Reader, by Aurora Levins Morales 

Reviewed by Jessica N. Pabón-Colón

Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, by Alberto Ortiz Díaz

Reviewed by Caroline Parker