ForumRace, Front and Center: Perspectives on Race among Puerto RicansFaculty Lounge 8th Floor, West Building Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue

Panelists: Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Rutgers University; Gabriel Haslip-Viera, City College (CUNY); and, Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, Yale University. Moderator: Carlos Vargas RamosA panel presentation by contributing writers featured in the forthcoming Centro Publications edited volume: Race, Front and Center: Perspectives on Race among Puerto Ricans, edited by Carlos Vargas Ramos. RSVP: centropr.nationbuilder.com/PRRace

Special EventLatino Migration, Citizenship, and the American DreamLang Recital Hall, 4th Floor, North Building Hunter College, 69th Street and Lexington Avenue

Guest speaker: Dr. Arlene DávilaAnnual Latino Heritage Month event by the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College, co-sponsored by Centro. Cultural performance by Amanda Alcantara (writer, poet and Editor of “Radical Latina“).

FALL 2017

EVENTS________

SEPTEMBERMonday

184-6 PM

Tuesday

146 - 8PM

Center For Puerto Rican StudiesHunter College, CUNY

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

OCTOBER

Tuesday

1912-3 PM

Meet the Author Edgardo Meléndez: Sponsored MigrationNorth Cafe, Hunter College West Building Lobby, 3rd Floor, 68th Street & Lexington Avenue

Author: Edgardo Meléndez Panelist: Ismael García-Colón and Arcadio Díaz QuinonesSponsored Migration places Puerto Rico’s migration policy in its historical context, examining the central role the Puerto Rican government played in encouraging and organizing migration during the postwar period. Meléndez sheds an important new light on the many ways in which the government intervened in the movement of its people: attempting to provide labor to U.S. agriculture, incorporating migrants into places like New York City, seeking to expand the island’s air transportation infrastructure, and even promoting migration in the public school system. One of the first scholars to explore this topic in depth, Meléndez illuminates how migration influenced U.S. and Puerto Rican relations from 1898 onward.RSVP: centropr.nationbuilder.com/SponsoredMigration

Wednesday

186-8 PM

Meet the Author Licia Fiol-Matta: The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music

North Café, West Building, 3rd Floor Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington AvenueAuthor: Licia Fiol-Matta, NYU, Commentator: Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Fordham UniversityLicia Fiol-Matta analyzes the lives and works of Ruth Fernández, Myrta Silva, Ernestina Reyes (La Calandria) and Lucecita. New York and the diaspora play a huge role in the careers of Myrta Silva and La Calandria. RSVP: centropr.nationbuilder.com/GreatWomanSinger

Tuesday

126-8PM

The Puerto Rican diaspora has engaged in a solidarity movement that is unprecedented in our history, and Centro is playing a unique convening, informational, and documentarian role in the process. The main goal of the Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans conferences is to gain a broader understanding of how the economic and humanitarian crises in Puerto Rico have affected the stateside Puerto Rican community.

Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA)

Film & Actors Washington, DC Summit

NovemberExhibition on view from November 8 through January, 2018.Monday – Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM.

Centro Library Room 120, Silberman School of Social Work2180 Third Avenue (119th Street), NYC

Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans

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Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Editor

Exhibition and CollectionsLas 3 Hermanas: Art, Education & ActivismCentro hosts the final stop of this exhibition which illustrates the lives and contributions of three sisters: Evelina López Antonetty, the oldest, was an iconic activist and champion for social causes; Lillian López, the middle sister, was among the first Puerto Rican librarians in the New York Public Library system and the first Puerto Rican Administrator; and Elba Cabrera, the youngest, established herself as an ambassador and advocate for the arts. The Centro Library and Archives holds the collections of these three distinguished pioneers of the Puerto Rican Community.

October 28, Saturday10 AM – 6 PMSilberman School of Social Work NY, NY

Puerto Rican higher education scholars and their allies will present academic research on Puerto Rico and share ideas for a diaspora academics’ response to the crisis.RSVP: centropr.nationbuilder.com/PRSA

November 10, Friday1:00 PM – 6:00 PMSilberman School of Social Work NY, NY

Centro and its Creative Network of the Puerto Rican Diaspora in partnership with Prime Latino Media Network will bring together film makers and actors to explore the use of film and multimedia as vehicles for social change.RSVP: centropr.nationbuilder.com/PRFilm2017

November 18, Saturday9:00 AM – 5:00 PMUniversity District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, Washington DC

Centro, NACOPRW-DC Chapter, Cenadores PR, UDC-David A. Clarke School of Law and the National Puerto Rican Agenda will host a one-day summit to discuss policy issues and the articulation of community responses to Puerto Rico’s economic crisis.RSVP: centropr.nationbuilder.com/DCSummit

Centro Events receive generous support from The New York City Council. Events are subject to change. For updated information please visit us at www.centropr.hunter.cuny.edu or call 212-396-6545. Centro Events are opened to the public and available via livestream.

Center for Puerto Rican StudiesHunter College695 Park Avenue, Rm. E1429New York, NY 10065 6 68th Street Hunter College Subway Stop

Library and ArchivesSilberman School of Social Work2180 Third Avenue and 119th Street, Rm 121New York, New York 10035 6 116th Street Subway Stop

Open HouseOpen HouseWest Building Cafeteria Lobby, 3rd FloorHunter College, 68th Street and Lexington AvenueCentro staff will be available to answer questions about work-study,

internships and volunteer opportunities available to students in areas of Community Outreach and Education, Social and Digital Media Outreach, Research Projects, Video Production, Publications Production, Centro Website Development, Centro Library and Archives.

HAVE YOUR VOICE BE HEARDLearn more at

http://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/centrovoices/

Race, Front and CenterPerspective on Race Among Puerto Ricans

Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Editor

Race, Front and CenterPerspective on Race Among Puerto Ricans

Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Editor