#puerto rico
San Juan mayor wears shirt saying “HELP US WE ARE DYING”
How to help Puerto Rico (details on where to send money, how to donate supplies, and how to volunteer). Consider also bookmarking this link - even if you can’t afford to donate now (or even if you can!), it’s important to remember that Puerto Rico will be in need for months and even years to come.
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“Solidarity With Puerto Rico”
Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America
Cuba
c. 1970s
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Does anyone know of the phone service is down in Puerto Rico? I’ve been trying to get in touch with my friend since 6am, I’m really worried about her.
Character study painted from a still frame around the six minute mark in the 2010 documentary “Foreign Parts”. There are auto repair shops in the project I’m working on. I’ve been looking for images to help me know what auto repair shops are like. “Foreign Parts” has beautiful footage of Willets Point in Queens, New York which in 2010 was loaded with auto repair shops and junked cars. Directed by Verena Paracelsus and J. P. Sniadecki. The two men in the image are singing to a song on the radio about Puerto Rico.
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Quiero playa y sol.
Don’t call me up. I’m going out tonight. Feeling good… | Nah, I’m kidding! You can call me. I’ll answer.
Isla del encanto.
Tropical.
By Jonathan Harrison PhD on February 7, 2018
Recent reports indicated that FEMA was cutting—and then not cutting—hurricane relief aid to Puerto Rico. When Donald Trump recently slandered Puerto Ricans as lazy and too dependent on aid after Hurricane Maria, Fox News host Tucker Carlson stated that Trump’s criticism could not be racist because “Puerto Rico is 75 percent white, according to the U.S. Census.”
Photo Credit: Coast Guard News, Flickr CC
This statement presents racism as a false choice between nonwhite people who experience racism and white people who don’t. It ignores the fact that someone can be classed as white by one organization but treated as non-white by another, due to the way ‘race’ is socially constructed across time, regions and social contexts.
Whiteness for Puerto Ricans is a contradiction. Racial labels that developed in Puerto Rico were much more fluid than on the U.S. mainland, with at least twenty categories. But the island came under U.S. rule at the height of American nativism and biological racism, which relied on a dichotomy between a privileged white race and a stigmatized black one that was designed to protect the privileges of slavery and segregation. So the U.S. portrayed the islanders with racist caricatures in cartoons like this one:
Clara Rodriguezhasshown how Puerto Ricans who migrated to the mainland had to conform to this white-black duality that bore no relation to their self-identifications. The Census only gave two options, white or non-white, so respondents who would have identified themselves as “indio, moreno, mulato, prieto, jabao, and the most common term, trigueño (literally, ‘wheat-colored’)” chose white by default, simply to avoid the disadvantage and stigma of being seen as black bodied.
Choosing the white option did not protect Puerto Ricans from discrimination. Those who came to the mainland to work in agriculture found themselves cast as ‘alien labor’ despite their US citizenship. When the federal government gave loans to white home buyers after 1945, Puerto Ricans were usually excluded on zonal grounds, being subjected to ‘redlining’ alongside African Americans. Redlining was also found to be operating on Puerto Rico itself in the insurance market as late as 1998, suggesting it may have even contributed to the destitution faced by islanders after natural disasters.
The racist treatment of Puerto Ricans shows how it is possible to “be white” without white privilege. There have been historical advantages in being “not black” and “not Mexican”, but they have not included the freedom to seek employment, housing and insurance without fear of exclusion or disadvantage. When a hurricane strikes, Puerto Rico finds itself closer to New Orleans than to Florida.
An earlier version of this post appeared at History News Network
Jonathan Harrison, PhD, is an adjunct Professor in Sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida SouthWestern State College and Hodges University whose PhD was in the field of racism and antisemitism.
What White Americans Misunderstand About Mixed-Race Latinx Identity
“Visibly mixed-race people are the norm, but Latinx people are trained to identify with nation first and race second, if at all.”
Story by Joamette Gil, art by Joamette GilandCorey Ranson.
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After being in Culebra Island from Thursday to Saturday, we had to leave Sunday morning for Viejo San Juan on the main island of Puerto Rico. We took a small charter plane, and the views were spectacular of the island. I was freaking out over nothing because I thought the weather was going to be horrible since it is considered hurricane season in the Caribbean. I was trying to take in all the sun I could in old San Juan before I had to come back home to NYC.
Shirt - H&M
Shorts - Aeropostale
Belt - American Apparel
Sandals - Pacsun
Ring - Yves Saint Laurant
Sunnies - Versace
By showing this richness, this dynamism, this variety of languages, I think we’re getting closer to what is actually happening outside the steps of the museum.“—Whitney curator Marcela Guerrero on the newly opened exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. Learn more on whitney.org.
[Video by Colin Archdeacon]
Harm Reduction Coalition (la Coalición de Reducción de Daños) se levanta en solidaridad con el Pueblo de Puerto Rico en sus exigencias de erradicar la corrupción gubernamental y, a su lado, celebramos y marchamos hacia adelante a la vez que el exgobernador Ricardo Rosselló renuncia ante manifestaciones masivas, poniendo fin a su legado de actividad ilícita y negligencia grave. Celebramos la resistencia de lxs manifestantes.
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Harm Reduction Coalition stands in solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico in their demands for an end to government corruption, and we celebrate and march forward alongside them as former governor Ricardo Rosello steps down in the wake of massive protests, putting an end to his legacy of malfeasance and gross negligence. We celebrate the protestors’ resistance. We bear witness to the hundreds of thousands of people who fled the island or died in the wake of hurricane Maria because the relief aid was so poorly managed. We honor the millions of people in the Puerto Rican diaspora–past and present–who have suffered irreparable harms caused by an oppressive regime and more than a century of U.S. colonialism.
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@adriosounds edited these randomly and i couldn’t be happier.
From one of my photographic series; a imagen y semejanza. It means a lot more than that title, so much intimacy, self discovery, comfort.. working with Kenneth always teaches me something.
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