Voices from Puerto Rico / Voces Desde Puerto Rico: Post-Hurricane Maria / pos-huracan Maria

by Iris Morales (Editor)

Overview

Voices from Puerto Rico: Post-Hurricane Maria is a collaborative project bringing together writings from island activists and artists who describe the storm's massive destruction and the pre-existing contiditons it exposed-widespread poverty, lack of infrastructio, and severe austerity-resulting from more than 120 years of United States colonial domination and a complicit local government.

Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, the most devastating cyclone to hit the island in almost a century. The first-person accounts, poetic narratives, and essays detail how Puerto Ricans mobilized in the immediate aftermath and the community activism that opened the door on another chapter in the country's ongoing struggle for self-determination, human rights and climate justice.

The anthology is bilingual, English and Spanish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996827669
Publisher:	Red Sugarcane Press, Inc.
Publication date:	03/23/2019
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

IRIS MORALES is a lifelong activist, educator, independent scholar, filmmaker, attorney, and author. An outspoken advocate for human rights, she brings her love of history and storytelling to write about Latinx social movements, gender and racial equality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico.

Table of Contents

Bilingual in English / Spanish

Introduction: Tengo a Puerto Rico en Mi Corazon (I have Puerto Rico in My Heart)

Part 1. Impact of Hurricane Maria

Part 2. The People Mobilize and Organize

Part 3. Reimagining Puerto Rico's Future

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Translators

Editor

About Red Sugarcane Press