9th Biennial Conference of the

Puerto Rican Studies Association

Cuerpos vigilados y castigados:

Resistance and Empowerment in the Body Rican

Thursday, 21- Saturday, 23 October 2010

Marriott Hartford Downtown

Hartford, Connecticut

Further information: http://www.puertorican-studies.org/

Conference Schedule

Thursday, 21 October 2010

10:00 am - 12 Noon Registration

1:30 pm Welcome

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm WORKSHOPS

 4:30 pm PRSA WELCOME RECEPTION

Presidential Welcome

Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, President

Puerto Rican Studies Association | SUNY Binghamton

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, Program Committee Chair

Puerto Rican Studies Association | Cornell University

Local Organizing Committee remarks

Charles R. Venator-Santiago, IPRLS, University of Connecticut

President James F. Jones, Jr.

Trinity College

Xiangming Chen, Dean and Director, Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College

Exhibition by Angel Franco

Reception hosted by Trinity College and University of Connecticut

Friday, 22 October 2010

7:00 am - 4:00 pm Registration

8:00 am - 6:00 pm Gallery and Exhibits

7:30 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 am- 10:00 am Concurrent Panels I

10:15 am - 11:45 am Concurrent Panels II

12:00 - 5:00 pm Book Fair

12:00 - 5:00 pm Book signing

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch for registrants

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Concurrent Panels III

2:15 pm - 3:45 pm Concurrent Panels IV

1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Walking tour

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Concurrent Panels V

6:00 pm Keynote Address

Awards Ceremony Public Library

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Elsa Núñez

President, Eastern Connecticut State University

Lecture: "From Barrio to Boardroom: Increasing Latino Graduation Rates"

PRSA Awards Ceremony

Reception hosted by the Institute for Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, University of Connecticut

Saturday, October 23, 2010

7:00 am - 11:00 am Registration

7:30 am - 8:30 am Continental

8:00 am - 4:00 pm Gallery and Exhibits

10:00 am - 4:00 pm Documentary Film Exhibit

8:30 am - 10:00 am Concurrent Panels VI

10:15 am - 11:45 am Concurrent Panels VII

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch for registrants

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Concurrent Panels VIII

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Plenary

4:45 pm - 6:30 pm PRSA Business Meeting

7:00 - 10:00 pm Reception & Closing Celebration

Sunday, October 24, 2010

8:30 am PRSA Executive Committee Meeting

PRSA Conference Panels

Friday, 22 October 2010

Concurrent Panels I

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

1A: Roundtable: PhotoVoice: A Participatory Research Method for Exploring Social Issues

Moderator: Hilda Lloréns, Institute for Community Research, Hartford

Zulynette Morales, Institute for Community Research

Annyas Y. Rodríguez, Institute for Community Research

Jennifer Supersad, Institute for Community Research

Marlene J. Berg, Institute for Community Research

1B: Uncovering Queer Praxis In The (Fluid) Spanish-speaking Caribbean

Moderator: Lourdes Torres, DePaul University

Homonormatividad boricua?

- Javier Laureano, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Camaleona caribeña: Rita Indiana's Queer Media Performances and the Construction of the Dominican and Puerto Rican "Hip"

- Celiany Rivera-Velázquez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Queer Ricans: Sexual Diasporas

- Lawrence Lafontaine-Stokes, University if Michigan

La aguja

- Carmen Oquendo-Villar, New York University

Discussant: Irmary Reyes-Santos, University of Oregon

1C: Activismos feministas y resistencias, fundamentalismos y exclusión

Moderator: Erika Gisela Abad Merced, Washington State University

Vigiladas y castigadas: Cuerpos y mujeres jóvenes en Puerto Rico

- Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Bayamón y Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe

RE vigiladas y castigadas: Carpeteo y vigilancia de feministas en los activismos y los

discursos en tiempos de fundamentalismos

- Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, División de Educación Contínua y Estudios Profesionales,

Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras y Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico

Protestas en cuerpo de mujer: Análisis discursivo de textos periodísticos

-Israel Rodríguez-Sánchez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

1D: Model Pathways Into Careers for Low Wage Puerto Ricans in Growing Sectors: Health, Social Work and Teacher Education

Moderator: Anthony De Jesús, Hunter College CUNY

Pathways to Economic Opportunity in the Health Industry: An Assessment of Community-Industry Collaborations

- Carmen V. Rivera, Organization Development Consultant

Strengthening and Connecting Pathways to Teaching Careers for Puerto Rican and other Latin@s from Low-income Households and Communities

- Carmen Mercado, Hunter College CUNY

Abriendo un camino: A Cross-Case Analysis of Three Model Pathway Initiatives for Low Wage Puerto Ricans in Social Work

- Anthony De Jesús, Hunter College CUNY

Discussant: Victor M. Torres-Vélez, Hunter College CUNY

1E: Race and Marginalization

Moderator: Kelvin Santiago-Valles, SUNY Binghamton

Voice and Presence of the Black and Mulatto Woman in the 19th Century San Juan Barrios: Her Impact upon Puerto Rico's Social Personality Today.

- Vilma Pizarro Santiago, Interamerican University, Barranquitas

Los Pioneros and the Raced and Colored Dimensions of Crime in Greater New York

- Peter L. Carlo Becerra, Independent Scholar

Antonia Sáez Torres: Alternative Educational Practices in Early Twentieth Century Puerto Rico

- Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, SUNY Binghamton

Colonial Laboratories, Irreparable Subjects: The Experiment of "(B)ordering" San Juan's Public Housing Residents

- José Fusté, University of California, San Diego

Concurrent Panels II

10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

2A: Ethnic, Racial and Gender Marginality in Puerto Rican Women Writers

Moderator: Larry LaFountain Stokes, University of Michigan

The Prostitute as a Sign of Resistance in Nuestra señora de la noche by Mayra Santos Febres and  "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" by Rosario Ferré

- Helen C. Weldt-Basson, Michigan State University

The Perennial Walk of the Foreigner: Dominican and Puerto Rican (Urban) Ethnic

Constructions in Magaly García Ramis's "Retrato del dominicano que pasó por puertorriqueño"

- Danny Méndez, Michigan State University

The Uses of History and Literature: Memory and Injustice in Mayra Santos Febre's Fe en disfraz

- Victor Figueroa, Wayne University

2B: Roundtable: The National Puerto Rican Archives Initiative: Making Sure Our

Stories Are Told and Preserved

Moderator: Edna Acosta-Belén, SUNY Albany

Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, Brooklyn College CUNY

Edwin Meléndez, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College CUNY

Alberto Hernández Banuchi, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College CUNY

Pedro Juan Hernández, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College CUNY

2C: Praxis creativa y aprendizaje colectivo: Arte, escritura y acción comunitaria

Moderator: Mónica Lladó-Ortega, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Carolina

Escribir jugando: Descubriendo las voces internas que fortalecen expresiones colectivas de liberación

- Gloribel Delgado-Esquilín, escritora y activista comunitaria

Acción creativa del salón a la comunidad: Transformaciones individuales y colectivas

- Mónica Lladó-Ortega, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Carolina

The Comic Book as a Tool for Social Transformation

- José Luis Vargas, community activist and cultural developer, and Program Coordinator at Iniciativa Comunitaria, Puerto Rico

The Creation of Community Leadership through Youth Media Social Marketing

- Glenda Dávila, Director, Prevention Program at Iniciativa Comunitaria, Puerto Rico

2D: Undergraduate Student Panel: Future Voices of Puerto Rican Studies

Moderator: Nelia Olivencia, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

The Preservation of the Taino Culture: How Tainos Survived Conquest and Globalization

- María M. Rodríguez, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Steps to Obtain Success

- Amelia Ortiz, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

The Puerto Rican Sacrifice for the Greater God

- Luis Ortiz, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

The Future of the Puerto Rican Youth

- Evoanna Kelley Correa, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

2E: Racialization in Progress: Tools, Development, Dynamics and Consequences in Social Differentiation Among Puerto Ricans

Moderator: Roberto Márquez, Mt Holyoke College

Emi/Immigration, "Blanqueamiento" and the Trek North and its Implications for the Afro-Latina/o Diaspora

- Arlene Torres, Hunter College CUNY

Puerto Ricans at the Verge of a Racial Breakdown: An Afrocentric Approach

- Milagros Denis, Hunter College CUNY

The Bias in the Eye of the Beholder: Socioeconomic Cues in Racial Identification in Puerto Rico

- Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College CUNY

Hacia una visión perfecta: Blackness and Neoliberal Restructuring in Caguas' Día de la Abolición

- Carlos Álamo, Vassar College

Concurrent Panels III

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

3A: Roundtable: Soap Operas and Telenovelas - Latin@ Media Literacy Through

Resistance, Talking Back, Self-Empowerment

Moderator: Diana Ríos, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Mari Castañeda, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jaime Gómez, Eastern Connecticut State University

Catherine Medina, University of Connecticut, Greater Hartford

Diana Ríos, University of Connecticut, Storrs

3B: Buscando una buena educación: Expanding Funds of Knowledge to Enhance

Home-School Community Connections

Moderator: Carmen Mercado, Hunter College CUNY

No es lo mismo, ni es igual: A Literature Review of Educación in Latino Educational

Research

- Sandra Quiñones, University of Rochester

Who is Responsible for Our "buena educación"? An Examination of How and Why High Achieving Puerto Rican Youth Excel in Spite of School

- René Antrop-González, Illinois College

Mexican American Family Practices: The Role of Funds of Knowledge and Educación in College Access

- Judy Márquez Kiyama, University of Rochester

"Buena educación" as Lived Knowledge: Perspectives from Latino Foreign Language Teachers

- Rosa Mazurett-Boyle, University of Rochester

3C: Casualties Of History

Moderator: Frederic W.Gleach, Cornell University

Military Subjects: Literary Representations of Puerto Rican Soldiers Coping with War

- Thomas Anderson, University of Notre Dame

Shame and Humiliation: Tools of Invisibility, Tools of Rebellion in Puerto-Nuyo Rican Literature

- Carmen Rivera, SUNY Fredonia

Digital Heroism: Web Memorializing Puerto Rican Soldiers in the 21st Century

- Manuel G. Avilés-Santiago, University of Texas, Austin

3D: Building and Disciplining the National(ist) Body: Politics, Puerto Rico, and the Diaspora in the 1950's

Moderator: Anne Macpherson, SUNY Brockport

Archival and Epistemological Marginalizations in Puerto Rican History: The Death of the Beet Field Crisis of 1950

- Eileen Findlay, American University

Lynching at the Height of the Atomic Era: Nuclear Weapons and the Disciplining of the Nationalist Body in the 1950's

- Andrea Friedman, Washington University

La Patria es Valor y Sacrificio: Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Women and Resistance to U.S. Colonialism

- Margaret Powers, Illinois Institute of Technology

3E: The Hispanic Health Council's Evidence-Based Service Models that Empower Community Health Workers As Agents of System Change

Moderator: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, University of Yale School of Public Health

The Hispanic Health Council's Approach to Development, Implementation and Testing of Community Health Worker Service Models

- Sofia Segura-Pérez, Hispanic Health Council

Breastfeeding Heritage and Pride Peer Counseling Program: A Community Health Worker Service Model for Health Promotion and Health System Change

- Celinet Franco, Hispanic Health Council

DIALBEST: A Peer Counseling Service Model that Improves Glucose Control and Informs Improvements in Health Care Services

- Deborah Cruz, Hispanic Health Council

Damas Informadas, Valientes, y Airosas Superando el Cancer (DIVAS) : A Community Health Worker Service Model for Cancer Management and Health System Change

- Denise Rivera, Hispanic Health Council

3F. Models of Surveillance

Moderator: Peter Carlo Becerra, Independent Scholar

Building Homes and Abandoning the City: Housing and Social Control in Puerto Rico

- Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Rutgers University

Propaganda, Control, and Surveillance as a Mechanism to Legitimize the Commonwealth (1950 - 1956)

- Amílcar Cintrón Aguilú

Colonial Cuerpos: Puerto Rican Women's Sterilization

- Jacqueline Lyon, DePaul University

Gendering Birth Control: Medical Debates on Reproduction and Economic Progress in Puerto Rico, 1932 - 1937

- Miluska Martínez Sarson, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Concurrent Panels IV

2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

4A: Spaces Of Domination and Resistance: The Body, The City, and The Nation in Puerto Rican Culture

Moderator: Danny Méndez, Michigan State University

The Gift of Tongues/El don de lenguas: Queer Kinship in Lozada's La patografía

- Juan Pablo Rivera, Westfield State College

Urban Space and the Prostitute's Body in Life of Sin

- Radost Rangelova, Gettysburg University

The Jumping Body-Rican: Diaspora, Race, Capital, and Nationalism in the Rise of Puerto Rican Basketball, 1959 - 1979

- Luis Figueroa, Trinity College

New Deals in Culture: U.S. National Mythologies and Puerto Rican Subjects

- Mariam Colón Pizarro, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

4B: Re-Membering Loisaida: The Visible/Invisible Puerto Rican Body in the Downtown Art Scene

Moderator: Libertad Guerra, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY

The Tribe of Jorge Brandon: Performance, Institutional Politics, and the Rise of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

- Urayoán Noel, SUNY Albany

Chino Malo: Revisioning Delinquency in Martin Wong's Loisaida Series

- Yasmín Ramírez, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College CUNY

On Archiving: Excerpts from the Center for Puerto Rican Studies "Downtown Collection" In-the-making

- Mario Ramírez, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College CUNY

Not Your Dada: Bodega Surrealism in Loisada

- Wilson Valentín-Escobar, Hampshire College

4C: Roundtable: Strategies for Developing and Implementing A Latino Public Policy Agenda

Moderator: Luis Cabán, Director of Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance, Hartford

- Frances Padilla, Acting President, Universal Health Foundation

- Alma Maya, Town Clerk, City of Bridgeport

- Kelvin Roldán, Connecticut State Representative (Hartford--4th District)

4D: Prostitución, historia, y literatura en Puerto Rico durante el siglo XIX y XX

Moderator: Jossianna Arroyo, University of Texas, Austin

La prostitución en San Juan de Puerto Rico, en el siglo XIX: Control sanitario e inclusion social

- Rafael Simón, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey

La imagen de Isabel la Negra en la literatura y el contexto puertorriqueño

- Janine Santiago, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Las relaciones equívocas entre el prostíbulo y la literatura puertorriqueña

- Grisel Maduro, William Paterson University

4E: From Census To Affect: Inscribing The Varieties Of Puerto Rican-ness

Moderator: Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Bayamón y Centro de

Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe

Puerto Ricans Leaving New York City, 1985 to 2000: A Longitudinal Study

- Gilbert Marzán, Bronx Community College, CUNY

Resisting Bodies, Heroic Emblems: La Perla in the Construction of a Puerto Rican Identity

- Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Marist College

Ir/resistible Difference: Sites of Power, Insights of Fiction in Edgardo Vega Yunqué's The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle

- Richard Pérez, John Jay College, CUNY

Y nos desgarraban de nuestro propio ser

- Nelia Olivencia, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

4F: New Approaches To Race, Nation, and Diaspora

Moderator: Solsiree Del Moral, Pennsylvania State University

I Am No Racist but You Are: The Silencing of Race and Performance of Accusations and Refutations in Early Twentieth Century Puerto Rico

- Ileana Rodríguez-Silva, University of Washington

Diaspora and Nation: Race, Citizenship, and Migration in Early-Twentieth Century Puerto Rico and the US Empire

- Solsiree Del Moral, Pennsylvania State University

Building a Consciousness of Resistance: Settlement Houses, Social Workers, and Puerto Ricans' Shifting Racial and Ethnic Identities, 1960 - 65

- Sonia Lee, Washington University in St. Louis

Santurce and the Music of the Caribbean Disapora

- Marisol Berríos-Miranda, University of Washington

Concurrent Panels V

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

5A: Geographies Of Power: Space, Inequality, and Community in Contemporary Puerto Rico

Moderator: Yarimar Bonilla, University of Virginia

Racialized Geographies: A Proposal for Assessing the Systematic Effects of Racism in Puerto Rico

- Isar Godreau, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey

Shared Mission, Different Agendas: The Gap Between the Discourse and Practices of Empowerment in NGO Promoted Community Development Projects in Puerto Rico

- Rafael Boglio Martínez, University of Michigan

The New Custodians of the (Neo)Colony: The Puerto Rico National Guard's New Culture of Military Welfare, 1969 - 2009

- Ramón Alejandro Suárez, New York University

Censurarme: Underground Rap and Neoliberal Policing in Puerto Rico

-Marisol LeBrón, New York University

5B: Teach the Children Well

Moderator: José Cruz, SUNY Albany

Reading, Writing, and Resisting: DiaspoRican Youth Perspectives on School Reform

- Jason Irizarry, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Class Based Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in Puerto Rico

- Walter Díaz, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Community Building Education and Youth Leadership Development as Acts of Resistance

- Matthew Rodríguez, Principal, Pedro Albizu Campos High School, Chicago

- Carlos DeJesús, Assistant Principal, Pedro Albizu Campos High School, Chicago

Mami, la teacher me regañó: Una comparación de la pedagogía tradicional y la pedagogía humanista mediante un relato personal

- Alessandra Rosa, Florida International University

Borinqueneers: Echoes of the Puerto Rican Voice in the Ivory Tower

- Jason Méndez, Center for Interdisciplinary Research for Creating Long Term Equity (CIRCLE), Potentialis Center, Pittsburgh

5C: Performing the Urban Rican

Moderator: Luis Figueroa, Trinity College

The Ninguno Campaign: Performance as a Resistance Strategy

- Beliza Torres Narváez, University of Texas, Austin

Bienvenidos a Guaynabo City: City Marketing and Everyday Life

- Carlos Suárez-Carrasquillo, University of Puerto Rico, Carolina

Personal Social Networks and Puerto Rican Identity

- Rosalyn Negrón Goldbarg, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Hip-hop, verso y conciencia: La poesía urbana contemporánea como arma de Resistencia y protesta

- Carla Santamaría, SUNY Albany

5D: Rhyme To Reason: Tato Laviera's Art of Civic Engagement

Moderator: Tato Laviera

Tato Laviera's Cosecha: Empowering and Giving Voice in the Rio Grande

- Stephanie Álvarez, University of Texas, Pan American

Poeta en el paseo: Tato Laviera's Chicago Plays

- Jacqueline Lazú, DePaul University

Azucarao: Tato Laviera and the Poetics of Health Promotion

- Glenn Martínez, University of Texas, Pan American

5E: Gender, Class, and Social Identities

Moderator: Diana Ríos, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Locating Puerto Rican Feminists: Gendered Modes of Resistance within the Young Lords

- Elizabeth García, Connecticut College

The Free Associated Stranger

- Mariana Cruz, Cornell University

The Ave/Eva Complex: Feminist Interventions in Puerto Rican Literature

- Marisel Moreno, University of Notre Dame

Cultural Capital in two Social Classes in Puerto Rico

- Jannette Hermina, University of New Mexico

Cultura = Identidad: The Use of Art among Social Movements in Puerto Rico

- Katherine Everhart, Vanderbilt University

Saturday, 23 October 2010

Concurrent Panels VII

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

6A: Writing, Women, and Colonialism

Moderator: Myrna García-Calderón, Syracuse University

Fictional Betrayals: Puerto Rican Women Writers Face the Nation

- Lydia Barovero, Providence College

Rosario Ferré's Four Storeyed Country

- Enriqure Morales-Díaz, Westfield State College

Colonial Resistance: Whose Burden?

- Victor Simpson, University of West Indies, Barbados

Beyond Ayas and Tembandumbas? Contemporary Representations of Afro-Puerto Rican Femininities in Literature, Film and Orature

- Jocelyn Géliga Vargas, University Of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

6B: Anthropologies of the Bio-Island: Puerto Rican Bodies at Risk

Moderator: Ida Susser, Hunter College CUNY

Toxicity is Relative: Managing Pharmaceutical Wastes in Northern Puerto Rico

- Alexa Dietrich, Wagner College

Unmanageable Care: Health Reform and Privatization in Puerto Rico

- Jessica Mulligan, Providence College

Wounded Bodies and the Unmaking of Militarized Landscapes: A Political Ecology of

(Dis)ease in Vieques, Puerto Rico

- Victor Torres Vélez, Hunter College CUNY

The Map is Not the Territory: Federal Funding and the Puerto Rican AIDS Industrial Complex

- Adriana Garriga-López, Columbia University

6C: Transnational Political Movements: The Case of the PSP in the United States, 1960s - 1980s

Moderator: Andrés Torres, Hunter College CUNY

The Discourse on Democratic Rights Within the Mainland PSP

- Miranda Martínez, Brooklyn College CUNY

- Alan Aja, Brooklyn College CUNY

From the Belly of the Beast: The Puerto Rican Socialist Party in the U.S., 1971 - 1982

- Isabel Rivera, Swarthmore College

EL PSP en Boston: Reflecciones de un organizador de base

- Jaime Rodríguez, William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences,

University of Massachusetts, Boston

The PSP: Missed Opportunities

- José Velázquez, Newark Public Schools

6D: Eastern Connecticut State University Making a Difference: Building Bridges Between The Latino Community and The University

Moderator: Ricardo Pérez, Eastern Connecticut State University

Arts and Cultural Partnership: Eastern and the Latino Community

- Imna Arroyo, Eastern Connecticut State University

Community Partners for Early Literacy (CPEL)

- Ann Anderberg, Eastern Connecticut State University

Eastern at the Interception of Theory and Practice: A Model of Mutual Learning

- Catina Cabán-Owen, Eastern Connecticut State University

Open Classroom: Teaching Puerto Rican Culture for the Liberal Arts

- Ricardo Pérez, Eastern Connecticut State University

6E: RicanLatin@s? Transnational Subjectivities and Communities

Moderator: Carlos Suárez-Carrasquillo, University of Puerto Rico, Carolina

Between the Worlds: Or, What Roberto Clemente's Transnational/Transcultural/Supralocal Identity Has To Do With the Civil Rights Movement in the United States

- Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, Miami University of Ohio

Latinos and the Collapsing Black/White Race Paradigm: Lessons from the Puerto Rican Experience

- René Francisco Poitevin, New York University

The Categories of the State: Reflections on the Making of 'Hispanics'

- Michael Rodríguez, Brown University

So Close, Yet so Far: Exploring Florida's Puerto Rican Communities

- Julio Firpo, University of Central Florida

6F: Resistencia, Diferencia, y Nación

Moderator: Petra Rivera, University of California, Berkeley

Espacios transculturadores en Dominicanish de Josefina Báez y No quiero quedarme sola y vacía de Ángel Lozada

- Enrique González-Conty, University of Texas, Austin

El sagrado principio de autoridad: Estudio sobre los mecanismos de subversión y resistencia en las novelas Póstumo el transmigrado y Póstumo envirginiado de Alejandro

Tapia y Rivera

- Juan López, University of Texas, Austin

La representación de los dominicanos en la prensa puertorriqueña

- Nadeska Mayens, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

- Doris Martínez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Little Witches

- Vilma Serrano, Departamento de Educación, Puerto Rico

Concurrent Panels VII

10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

7A: The Hispanic Health Council: A Community-Based Organizational Model for Opposing And Resisting Inequities In Health

Moderator: Joan Cruz, Hispanic Health Council

The Hispanic Health Council's Organizational Model: A Key Factor in its Success

- Grace Damio, Hispanic Health Council

Community Based Participatory Research at the Hispanic Health Council: Facilitating the Expressions of Community Voice through Innovative Methods of Community Engagement to Inform System Change

- Angela Bermúdez-Milán

System Change Achieved Through HHC Advocacy: A Historic Overview and Highlight on the Example of Coalition Building to Achieve Medicaid Funding of Medical

Interpretation

- Jeannette De Jesús, Hispanic Health Council

Models of Evidence-Based Direct Service that Empower Community Members and Change Systems

- Karem Pérez-Rivera, Hispanic Health Council

7B: Poetics Of Resistance

Moderator: Ivette Romro-Cesareo, Marist College

Artes y letras: Feminismo, conciencia étnica, y liderazgo social (1933 - 1939)

- María Teresa Vera-Rojas, Universitat de Barcelona

History and Historic Literature: A Tool for the Denaunce in Puerto Rico Reality

- María Roselló, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe

Julia de Burgos' Poetry of Resistance

- Natasha Azank, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Independence and the Corpus of the Canon: Resistance and Reality

- María Acosta Cruz, Clark University

7C: Puerto Ricans In Central Florida: Identity, Schooling, and Socioeconomic Mobility

Moderator: Anthony De Jesús, Hunter College CUNY

Memory and Meaning: Notes on Cultural Identification and Puerto Rican Communities in Central Florida

- Patricia Silver, University of Central Florida

Assessing the Impact of Residence in Central Florida on Socioeconomic Mobility: Structural and Individual Factors

- Wiliam Vélez, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

- Giovani Burgos, McGill University

Puerto Rican and Immigrant Youth Achievement and Aspirations in Orlando, Florida

- Diana Ariza, Albion College

Chasing the Florida Dream: Examining the Schooling Experiences of Puerto Rican Youth in a Large Comprehensive High School

- James Sokolowski (presenter), Illinois College

- (Co-Author: René Antrop-González, Illinois College)

7D: Puerto Ricans with Disabilities: Three Voices

Hysterrifying: The Disposable Bodies Speak

- Aurora Levins Morales, Independent Scholar

Reflections from a Boricua CODA (Child of Deaf Adults)

- Andrés Torres, Hunter College, CUNY

The Myth of Disability and Sex

- Luz María Umpierre, Independent Scholar

7E: Iniciativas y resistencias: Vigilancia/Violencia de cuerpos, memorias, e instituciones

Moderator: Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, SUNY Binghamton

De los "jueyitos" a la resistencia pacífica, desde el rescate de la memoria hasta la violencia revolucionaria: Resistencia y creatividad en la lucha viequense

- Victor M. Rodríguez Domínguez, California State University

Iniciativas contra la violencia económica/cultural institutionalizada por las universidades metropolitanas: La produccion de un archivo sobre la conciencia cimarrona

- W. F. Santiago-Vallés, Western Michigan University

A Controversial Search for Truth: Responses to Investigations on the Ponce Massacre in the United States and Puerto Rican Press

- Katherine Rodríguez-Pérez, Wesleyan University

Negotiating Diaspora, Nationalism, and Marxism: The Ideological Foundations of the Fuerzas Armadas De Liberación Nacional

- Parissa Majdi Clark, University of California, Los Angeles

7F: Los Tomateros: Revisiting Puerto Rico's Farm Labor Program, 1947 - 1977

Moderator: Jorge Duany, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Prisons of Hope: An Anthropology of Puerto Rican Farm Labor in the United State

- Ismael García-Colón, College of Staten Island CUNY

A Transnational Colonial Migration: Puerto Rico's Farm Labor Program

- Jorge Duany, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Puerto Rico's Migration Division: Mediating the Global Economy

- Carmen T. Whalen, Williams College

Discussant: Eileen Findlay, American University

Concurrent Panels VIII

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

8A: The Ultimate Vigil: Explorations of the Representations of Death, Wakes and Funerals in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora

Moderator: José Fusté, University of California, San Diego

The Deaths of the Patriarch, the Great Conguero, and the Sonero Mayor: 1980's Public Funerals in Puerto Rico's Socio-Political Landscape

- Rosa Elena Carrasquillo, College of the Holy Cross

- Hilda Lloréns, Institute for Community Research, Hartford

Talking to the Dead? The Ritualization of El Velorio in the Puerto Rican Diaspora

- Alberto Sandoval Sánchez, Mt. Holyoke College

Melancholic Readings: Death and Mourning in Puerto Rican Culture

- Jason Cortés, Rutgers University, Newark

Julia's Untwisted Name: The Materialism of Poema para mi muerte

- Christopher Powers, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

8B: The Nation and Its Gendered Dangers

Moderator: Jacqueline Lyon, DePaul University

On Strong Women and Grandes Egos

- Melissa Rosario, Cornell University

Parting Sorrow: Steven López Mercado's Dismemberment as Metaphor for the Boricua Queer Tragedy

- Erika Gisela Abad Merced, Washington State University

La Vida Loca: The Significance of Transgender and Gender Non-conformity in the Lives of Migrant Puerto Rican Sexual Minorities

- Marysol Asencio, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Cuerpos sexualizados en el escenario urbano: La experiencia puertorriqueña queer en San Juan y Nueva York en Conversaciones con Aurelia de Daniel Torres y No quiero quedarme sola y vacía de Ángel Lozada

- Elena Valdez, Rutgers University

Institucionalizando a la lesbiana puertorriqueña a través del cine

- Consuelo Martínez-Reyes, University of Pennsylvania

8C: La resistencia: Con la música por dentro--y por fuera

Moderator: Katherine Everhart, Vanderbilt University

Espacios de resistencia: La representación del ghetto en los videos de reggaetón

- Lorna Torrado, University of Texas, Austin

Breaking Beats, Creating Cultural Revolutions: Defining Hip-Hop

- Jaime Flores, Virginia State University

Resistance and Empowerment of La Sista: (Re)birth of Black Woman on the Puerto Rican Popular Music Stage

- Bárbara Abadía-Rexach, University of Texas, Austin

Black Boricua: Ambivalence, Place, and Blackness in Tego Calderón's Reggaetón

- Petra Rivera, University of California, Berkeley

Sonido Bestial: Talking Salsa with Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz

- Luis Vázquez, University of Michigan

8D: Roundtable: poder Al Que Pasa: Traditions of Resistance In The Poetry of Puerto Rico and The Diaspora

Moderator: LiYun Alvarado, Fordham University

- Isis Irizarry, Trinity College

- Willie Perdomo, poet and author

- Richard Villar, Accentos Foundation

- LiYun Alvarado, Fordham University

8E: Roundtable: Adelante: Institutional and Individual Transformation when Latinas return to College

Moderator: Madeline Pérez, Saint Joseph College

- María Luisa Feliciano, Saint Joseph College

- Loren Romero, Saint Joseph College

- Xiomara Rosa, Saint Joseph College

- Carmen Rodríguez, Saint Joseph College

- Nelly Rojas-Schwan, Saint Joseph College

- Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella, Saint Joseph College

- Madeline Pérez, Saint Joseph College

8F: Resistance and Empowerment in the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora

Moderator: Vanessa Pérez Rosario, Brooklyn College CUNY

- Insular Interventions: Jésus Colón Exposes Racial Harmonizing and Uplifting Discourses of Populism in Puerto Rico

- Maritza Stanchich, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Queering the I(s)land: Genre and Gender in Manuel Ramos Otero's El cuento de la Mujer del Mar

- Mónica Lladó-Ortega, University of Puerto Rico, Carolina

Julia de Burgos' Legacy on U.S. Latino Literature

- Vanessa Pérez Rosario, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Discussant: Juan Flores, New York University

Plenary:

Technologies of Power and Puerto Rican Resistances to Disciplinary Practices

2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Moderator: Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, Cornell University

Participants:

Mérida M. Rúa (Williams College): Parallel migrations, population control, and cheap racialized labor to Chicago in the late 1940s.

José Toro Alfonso (Universidad de Puerto Rico -Río Piedras): La hetero-normativa social del cuerpo  masculino vis-a-vis la resistencia de los transexuales.

Arlene Torres (Hunter College -CUNY): How museums and other exhibition sites frame the Puerto Rican body.

Reinaldo Román (University of Georgia -Athens): Prisons and espiritismo: Pain and social regeneration in Puerto Rico during the early 1900s.

Sonia Báez Hernández (European Graduate School): Corporalidades en entredicho, alteridades identitarias y estéticas visuales irreverentes.

Kelvin Santiago-Valles (Binghamton University-SUNY): Racial Profiling and Puerto Rican Guinea Pigs, 1930s-1990s.

Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) 

PRSA Executive Council 2009-2011

Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, President (SUNY, Binghamton)

Roberto Márquez, Vice-President and President-elect (Mt. Holyoke College )

Luis Aponte Parés, Past President (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Myrna García-Calderón, Secretary (Syracuse University)

Tony de Jesús, Treasurer (Hunter College)

Magali Roy-Féquière, Executive Council (Knox College)

Frederic W. Gleach, Executive Council and Webmaster (Cornell University)

Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles, Executive Council (SUNY, Binghamton)

Charles Venator-Santiago, Executive Council (University of Connecticut)

Erika Abad, Student Representative (Washington State University)

Iliana González, Student Representative (DePaul University)

PRSA Secretariat

Latino Studies Program

Cornell University

434 Rockefeller Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853

Marti Dense, Program Administrator

Polly Miner, Program Assistant

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, Associate Professor, LSP/Anthropology

PRSA Conference Program Committee

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, Chair (Cornell University)

Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz (SUNY, Binghamton)

Erika Abad (Washington State University)

Jossianna Arroyo (University of Texas, Austin)

Myrna García-Calderón (Syracuse University)

Frederic W. Gleach (Cornell University)

Roberto Márquez (Mt. Holyoke College)

Magali Roy-Féquière (Knox College)

Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles (SUNY, Binghamton)

Charles R. Venator-Santiago (University of Connecticut, Storrs)

Local Organizing Committee, Hartford

Charles Venator-Santiago, Chair (University of Connecticut, Storrs)

Marysol Asencio, (IPRLS, University of Connecticut)

Catina Caban-Owen (Eastern Connecticut State University)

Odette Cassamayor-Cisneros (IPRLS, University of Connecticut)

Hon. Luis Cotto (City of Hartford)

Pablo Delano (Trinity College)

Guillermo B. Irizarry (University of Connecticut, Storrs)

Estela Lopez (AARP)

Xae Reyes (University of Connecticut, Storrs)

Diana Rios (University of Connecticut, Storrs)

Luiselle Rivera (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)

Hon. Jason Rojas (Trinity College)

Acknowledgements

Sponsors

Cornell University, Latino Studies Program

Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences

Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and Associate Dean Jeffrey Ogbar,

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut

Dean Elizabeth Mahan, Office of International Affairs, University of Connecticut

Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Connecticut

Larisa Hull Zagorski, Research & Graduate Education, University of Connecticut

Hon. Jason Rojas, Trinity College

Dean Xiangming Chen, Center for Urban & Global Studies, Trinity College

Sharon Harris, Director, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut

Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, University of Connecticut

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

City Hall, City of Hartford

Dean Carmen Cid, School of Arts & Sciences, Eastern Connecticut State University

Leticia Cotto and Richard Frieder, City of Hartford Public Library

Maria Martinez and Xae A. Reyes, Workshop Facilitator

Local Organizing Committee - (see above)

Marela Zacarias (www.marela.org)

Marriott Hartford Downtown