This week, El Davíd (https://www.eldavidwrites.com) and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "Borikén" and "The Corner Victorian" and historical homes.
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Photo of El Davíd by Albert Areizaga.
Links to topics we touched on:
1. Nyuorican Poetry: https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-nuyorican-poetry
2. Taíno culture and people: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Taino & https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/what-became-of-the-taino-73824867/
3. Puerto Rico independence movement: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2020/05/21/the-history-of-puerto-rico-shows-that-nationalism-can-be-liberatory-rather-than-xenophobic/
4. The forced sterilization of Puerto Rican women and Mexican-American women: https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/health-and-society/dark-history-forced-sterilization-latina-women, https://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/connections/530ba18176f0db569b00001b and https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/lats3naren/population-control-in-puerto-rico-in-the-1950s-and-1960s/
5. Taino heritage in Puerto Ricans: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/what-ancient-dna-says-about-puerto-ricos-history/598246/
6. Percentage of Puerto Ricans who identify as Black: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/us/puerto-rico-census-black-race.html
7. Ifa: https://research.auctr.edu/c.php?g=404402&p=2752855
8. Borikén: http://www.taino-tribe.org/jatibonicu-flagstory.htm
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