Publications

RicanWritings

Large red gates common in Puerto Rican culture intersect to create a corner.

Boundaries of Belonging: Reclaiming Place through Memory and Archit...

August 19, 2025

The idea of place—a space where we belong—is a constant subject for many of us. For Afro-Puerto… Learn More

RicanWritings

Yellow painting with two green borders. The center of the painting has a red square. Underneath the canvas, a cube pushes to the surface.

Causas y efectos según el artista Lope Max Díaz

August 14, 2025

La obra se ha caído. Ha rebotado con el suelo. Su color se ha nivelado al fondo,… Learn More

RicanWritings

Dried palm with attached car air-freshener trees hanging over a branch of bananas/platanos. Under the overhang there is a golden steering wheel, groceries, and dominos. On the wall behind it all there is a bold tapestry of trees.

Memories Through Our Things

August 11, 2025

Collage is derived from the French verb coller, meaning “to stick” (Nguyen, 2024). Ephemeral evidence is rarely… Learn More

RicanWritings

A close up grayscale photo of artist Natalia Lassalle-Morillo standing in front of a tree with her hands behind her head. She looks at the camera with a neutral expression.

Rican(actments): Mourning, Kinship, and Existential Waiting in Nata...

August 07, 2025

The coquí frogs’ chirping fills the audible space before any voices do. It’s a familiar noise for… Learn More

RicanWritings

Mural of people cooking. Food is in spoons and bowls.

Health & Wellness in the Community: The Art of Cindy Lozito

July 31, 2025

Arrivals Cindy Lozito is a South Philadelphia-based visual storyteller, creating comics, illustrations, and murals that speak to… Learn More

RicanWritings

Painting of a man burning in a patch grass.

Fuego y Cimarronaje en la obra Quema’o #3 del artista Jean “Baco” O...

July 29, 2025

En el celebrado y destacado libro Esclavos Rebeldes. Conspiraciones y sublevaciones en Puerto Rico (1795-1873), el historiador… Learn More

RicanWritings

Mangroves painted in oranges and greens. Viewed from below.

Mi amigue el mangle: Un reencuentro con la obra migratoria de Lauri...

July 23, 2025

Un invierno de 2022 recibí una llamada de la artista visual puertorriqueña Laurie De Jesús Lagares, quien… Learn More

RicanWritings

Orange drawing of roots taking hold of the bright ground.

A Reflection on the Work of Artist Bibiana Suárez

July 22, 2025

Bibiana Suárez, born and raised in Puerto Rico and now based in windy city Chicago, blows the… Learn More

RicanWritings

Installation shot of both Precario and Disertacion criolla.

Cocinando Suave: On the Visual Metaphor of Josué Guarionex

July 17, 2025

With Precario (2023), a chair-like sculpture constructed from discarded pieces of wooden furniture, Puerto Rican-born, New York-based… Learn More

RicanWritings

A digitally compiled image of four photographs. A bookshelf holds framed photographs and relics of the artist’s father, with some items on the floor. One photo shows a black-and-white Puerto Rican flag, a woman standing in front of a door, and a framed Puerto Rican flag in front of her, with office supplies below and a smaller framed Puerto Rican flag below. An image of a notebook with PR PASSION in orange lettering and a blue outline overlaps this photo. Another image features trinkets, a stuffed bear, and a projector on a chair where her father last sat, projecting a Bacardi bottle. Tola’s Room is written in white on a red square in the bottom left. A yellow backdrop frames the images.

Not Your Typical House Museum: Puerto Rican Space Making through Ar...

July 16, 2025

I first met Christina in 2018. We were Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellows at the Caribbean Cultural Center… Learn More

RicanWritings

Ink drawing of medical diagrams, figures, text, on a green background.

Con ES-MERO: La línea La línea diversificada y meticulosa de Pseudo...

July 10, 2025

“Cuando una obra tiene una sola interpretación para todo el que la mira, no es una obra de… Learn More

RicanWritings

A bowl, grater, and various tools mixed with root vegetables and platanos are set in a radial position in the middle of concentric charcoal circles on canvas.

(Re)mejunje: In Conversation with Valeria Tizol Vivas

July 08, 2025

To say remejunje:requemar begins or ends with a particular gesture would be misleading. Throughout the performance, Valeria… Learn More

RicanWritings

A bartender looks sadly into the distance.

In Direction of the Sun: An analysis of the monochromatic high key ...

July 03, 2025

Since color became the default in cinema, using black-and-white is now a deliberate choice (Misek, 2010). In… Learn More

RicanWritings

Installation of works that look like the square and blocky aerial view of farmland from a plane.

Navigating Noise, Diasporic Mappings, and Ruptured Spaces: The Prac...

July 01, 2025

Nayda Collazo-Llorens (b.1968, San Juan, PR) is an artist based in Michigan who works on paper, canvas,… Learn More

RicanWritings

A layered quilted collage of flowers, people, and rainbows.

Digging Deep: The Archeology of Identity in Amber Robles-Gordon’s Art

June 26, 2025

Working in the arts was something I never envisioned for myself, considering my background as a Human… Learn More

RicanWritings

Collage on paper of images of Puerto Rican flags, religious figures, someone wearing sandals, colorful paper, and seashells. There is a note in the middle that reads "Your sad eyes always radiates/ed a smile/s. Your hands always healing and your soul ever forgives/ing. Your feet righteously grounded. I was so blessed but now I'm missing you now Mommy I am so thirsty now. All that you are is/was gone/joy."

Collage as Common Ground: Juan Sánchez’ "Poema para Mami" (2013)

June 24, 2025

So many things are familiar to me in this image: the chanclas, a staple of my childhood,… Learn More

RicanWritings

Decorated and painted spiked mace weapons sit on pink display boxes in a gallery.

Arming the Contemporary Through Memory and Fantasy: A Look at Tools...

June 19, 2025

If one was to enter the Caribbean history wing at a museum, assuming said museum would even… Learn More

RicanWritings

Three women, two with fluffy dresses and one with a patterned blouse sits on a couch at home.

Christopher López’s Hoboken Fires: From Ashes, a Counter-Archive Em...

June 16, 2025

On October 25, 1981, Ana Mercado lost her life along with her father, husband, and four children.… Learn More

RicanWritings

An image of the interior of a plane. A sand pile in the shape of a child sits in one of the plane chairs.

The Formation of Islets as a Metaphor Against Distance and Oblivion...

June 13, 2025

Islands arise through dynamic geological processes, including volcanic activity, tectonic plate shifts, and erosion. These forces not… Learn More

RicanWritings

Culture Under Siege: Policing Culture

May 29, 2025

What happens when the state attempts to regulate culture under the guise of protection? In our latest… Learn More

Book

Testimony before the Puerto Rico Advisory Committee to the United S...

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RicanWritings

Palestine in the Nuyorican Literary Imagination: Pedro Pietri’s “Wi...

April 21, 2025

Tomorrow will always be / Within reach of us all // Because the many are / Plenty… Learn More

Policy Brief

¿No Pagan Taxes? Overview Of Federal Revenue-Raising In Puerto Rico...

Residents of Puerto Rico pay federal taxes. They did so to the tune of $5 billion in… Learn More

RicanWritings

Reseña Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025) por Bad Bunny

March 10, 2025

Uno de los coros más populares en la época Navideña en mi Puerto Rico es la canción… Learn More

RicanWritings

Hoy Te Recuerdo: Mapping Femicides in Puerto Rico

February 10, 2025

Adrianna Ríos has developed an interactive Google Map documenting femicides in Puerto Rico between January 2021 and… Learn More

RicanWritings

Aquí y allá: Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rico, and the 2024 Elections

December 16, 2024

Puerto Ricans were in the national spotlight during the last weeks of the US presidential campaign at… Learn More

CENTRO Journal

CENTRO Journal Summer 2024 | Vol. 36 | No. 2,

CENTRO JOURNAL SUMMER 2024 | VOLUME 36 | NUMBER 2 SPECIAL ISSUE: Caudal: Rasanblaj of Contemporary Feminist and Queer/Cuir… Learn More

RicanWritings

An East-Harlem–Diasporic–Renaissance: Manny Vega at the Museum of t...

November 18, 2024

captured by author Carlos Ortiz Burgos in Nov. 2024 Learn More

RicanWritings

Inaugurating RicanWritings: A Ceremony for Relations

October 14, 2024

In a time where the humanities, ethnic studies, books, and even knowledge itself are being banned, regulated,… Learn More

CENTRO Journal

Boundaries of Belonging: Reclaiming Place through Memory and Archit...

Causas y efectos según el artista Lope Max Díaz

Memories Through Our Things

Rican(actments): Mourning, Kinship, and Existential Waiting in Nata...

Health & Wellness in the Community: The Art of Cindy Lozito

Fuego y Cimarronaje en la obra Quema’o #3 del artista Jean “Baco” O...

Mi amigue el mangle: Un reencuentro con la obra migratoria de Lauri...

A Reflection on the Work of Artist Bibiana Suárez

Cocinando Suave: On the Visual Metaphor of Josué Guarionex

Not Your Typical House Museum: Puerto Rican Space Making through Ar...

Con ES-MERO: La línea La línea diversificada y meticulosa de Pseudo...

(Re)mejunje: In Conversation with Valeria Tizol Vivas

In Direction of the Sun: An analysis of the monochromatic high key ...

Navigating Noise, Diasporic Mappings, and Ruptured Spaces: The Prac...

Digging Deep: The Archeology of Identity in Amber Robles-Gordon’s Art

Collage as Common Ground: Juan Sánchez’ "Poema para Mami" (2013)

Arming the Contemporary Through Memory and Fantasy: A Look at Tools...

Christopher López’s Hoboken Fires: From Ashes, a Counter-Archive Em...

The Formation of Islets as a Metaphor Against Distance and Oblivion...

Culture Under Siege: Policing Culture

Testimony before the Puerto Rico Advisory Committee to the United S...

Palestine in the Nuyorican Literary Imagination: Pedro Pietri’s “Wi...

¿No Pagan Taxes? Overview Of Federal Revenue-Raising In Puerto Rico...

Reseña Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025) por Bad Bunny

Hoy Te Recuerdo: Mapping Femicides in Puerto Rico

Aquí y allá: Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rico, and the 2024 Elections

CENTRO Journal Summer 2024 | Vol. 36 | No. 2,

An East-Harlem–Diasporic–Renaissance: Manny Vega at the Museum of t...

Inaugurating RicanWritings: A Ceremony for Relations

CENTRO JOURNAL FALL 2023 | VOLUME 35 | NUMBER 3

The AfroCENTRO Reader: Revisiting Black Puerto Rican Scholarship

Clientelism and Corruption in the Wake of Disasters

Centro Journal 35, no1 (Spring 2023)

Centro Journal 35, no 2 (Summer 2023)

Puerto Rican Studies in the City University of New York: The First ...

Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionary Exiles in Late Nineteenth Centur...

Not the Time to Stay: The Unpublished Plays of Victor Fragoso

Liberalism and Identity Politics: Puerto Rican Community Organizati...

Race, Front and Center: Perspectives on Race among Puerto Ricans

RHYTHM & POWER: Performing Salsa in Puerto Rican and Latino Communi...

Puerto Ricans in the United States Infographics, 2019 - 2023

Hispanic Empowerment in New York’s Municipal Workforces, 2021

The Puerto Rico Children Vulnerability Index, 2021

Pervasive Poverty in Puerto Rico: a Closer Look

Centro Journal 34, no.1 (Spring 2022)

Centro Journal 34, no.3 (Summer 2022)

CENTRO Journal 34, no.3 (Fall 2022)

Redistricting NYC: Demographic Change and The Hispanic Community

CENTRO Journal 34, no 2 (Summer 2022)

The State of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. Dashboard

Centro Journal 33, no 3 (FALL 2021)

Centro Journal 33, no2 (SUMMER 2021)

Centro Journal 33, no 1 (SPRING 2021)

Redistricting 2020: The Prospects of Increasing Hispanic Legislativ...

Redistricting Threats to New York’s Hispanic Congressional Represen...

Puerto Rico’s 2020 Population Decennial Analysis

Puerto Rico’s 2020 Race/Ethnicity Decennial Analysis

Four Year Anniversary of Hurricane Maria Series: Aging Population

Four Year Anniversary of Hurricane Maria Series: Disabled Population

Redistricting 2020: The Prospects of Increasing Hispanic Legislativ...

Redistricting 2020: Challenges to Hispanic Congressional Representa...

Redistricting 2020: Population Change and Hispanic Congressional Re...

Redistricting 2020: The Prospects of Increasing Hispanic Legislativ...

Centro Journal 32, no 1 (SPRING 2020)

Centro Journal 32, no.2 (SUMMER 2020)

Centro Journal 32, no 3 (FALL 2020)

Small Business Pulse Survey Shows Breadth of COVID-19 Impact on Bus...

Enduring Disasters: Puerto Rico, Three Years After Hurricane María

Puerto Rican Citizen Voting-Age Population in 2019

Puerto Ricans in Ohio: 2010 - 2018

Puerto Ricans in Florida: 2010 - 2018

Centro Journal 31, no. 3 (Summer 2019)

Centro Journal 31, no. 2 (Spring 2019)

Centro Journal 31, no. 1 (Fall 2019)

Anticipated Vulnerabilities: Displacement and Migration in the Age ...

Centro Journal 30, no. 3 (Summer 2018)

Centro Journal 30, no. 2 (Spring 2018)

STORM SURGE: Impact of Post Maria Displacement of Puerto Ricans and...

Centro Journal 30, no. 1 (Fall 2018)

Centro Journal 29, no. 3 ( FAll 2017)