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Poster Content by Edna Acosta-Belen Poster Series Design by Jorge Fish Rodriguez
Poster Content: Th e Puerto Rican Heritage Poste r Series was deve loped by Dr. Edna Acosta-Belen , Distinguished Professor in the Depa rtm ents of Lati n American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies (LACS) and Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Acknowledgments: We want to acknowledge the valuable assistance of the Centro Li brary and Archives and Centro Publications staff; of doctora l student Jacqueline Hayes at the Center for Liltino, Liltin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) and Dr. Hui-Sh ien Tsao at the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA), University at Albany, SUNY; and of Professors Vi rginia sanchez Korrol at Brooklyn Col lege, Edwin Meliindez and Edgardo Melendez at Hunter Col lege,
Carlos Rodriguez Fraticel li at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Pied ras, and Christi ne E. Bose at the University at Albany, SU NY.
Bibliography: Edna Acosta -Belen and Carlos E. Santiago, Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait (Bou lder, CO: Lynne Rienner Pub lishers, 2006); cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe, Puerto Ricans in the American Century (Chapel Hi ll: University of North Carolina Press, 2007); Mario R. Cancel and Hector R. Feliciano, Puerto Rico: Su transformaci6n en e/ tiempo (San Juan: Editorial Cordillera, 2008); Centro History Task Force, Labor Migration Under Capitalism:
The Puerto Rican Experience (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1980); Francisco Moscoso and Uzette Cabrera, His tori a de Puerto Rico (Guaynabo, PR : Editoria l Santil lana, 2008); Fernando Pic6, A History of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People (Princeton, NJ: Marcus Wiener, 2006); Virginia sanchez Korrol, From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City (Berkeley: University of Ca lifornia Press, 1986. First edition, 1983); Francisco Scarano, Puerto Rico:
Cinco siglos de historia (San Juan: McGraw- Hill, 1993 ); and Blanca G. Silvestri ni, y Maria Do lores Luque de sanchez, Historia de Puerto Rico: Trayectoria de un pueblo (San Juan: Cultura l Puertorriquefia, 198 7) .
Note: lhe contemporary names of African nations used in th is map provide a rough approximation of the geograph ic origin of a large portion of the millions of enslaved black Africans from different tribes and regions brought to the Caribbean through the slave trade.