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PR101

• Art at the Service of the People: Posters and Books from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO): art exhibit at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Chicago (August 2018-December 2019).
• Rebuild Puerto Rico (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)
• Puerto Rico Post-Maria (comprehensive report)
• PR Syllabus (Hurricane Maria)
• Island in Crisis: Teaching About Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria (NYT)
• Open Letter to the people of the United States from Puerto Rico

History, Politics, and Culture

• • Hurricane Colonialism: The Economic, Political, and Environmental War on Puerto Rico (The Intercept, Sept. 19, 2018)

• Why the Insular Cases Must Become the Next Plessy (Harvard Law Review Blog, March 28, 2018)
• PROMESA, Puerto Rico, and the American Empire by Pedro Cabán (Latino Studies)
• Puerto Rico is Still a Victim of Colonial Neglect (Washington Post)
• Bajo agua el Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (Nuevo Día)
• A Cartoon History of Colonialism in Puerto Rico
• The Insular Cases
• Museum of the Old Colony (Pablo Delano)

Infrastructure and Environment

• Forgotten Island: Vieques Still Running Entirely On Generators More Than a Year After Maria Hit (CBSN, Sept. 22, 2018)
• There’s Nothing Natural about Puerto Rico’s Disaster (Naomi Klein, The Intercept, Sept. 21, 2018)
• What Happened in in the Dark: Puerto Rico’s Year of Fighting for Power  (Daniel Alarcón, Aug. 23, 2018)
• Coffee and the Shock Doctrine in Puerto Rico
• Through Our Eyes: Life in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (Now This)
• In the Dark (Radio Ambulante/NPR)
• Blackout in Puerto Rico (Frontline/NPR, 55 min. docum), plus additional resources
• Puerto Rico – Story of a Catastrophe – (Kinesis Foundation video)

Economy and Migration

• Puerto Rico: The Exodus After Hurricane Maria (CBS, Sept. 23, 2018) 
• When Disaster Capitalism Comes for the University of Puerto Rico (The Nation, Sept. 20, 2018)
• Almost 200,000 People Flee Puerto Rico in the Year Since Hurricane Maria (Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Sept. 20, 2018)
• The Battle for Paradise: Naomi Klein Reports from Puerto Rico (The Intercept, April 2018)
• The Effects of Displacement on Puerto Rican K-12 Students in Florida After Hurricane Maria (Natural Hazards Center Report)
• Puerto Rico Syllabus: essential tools for critical thinking about the Puerto Rican debt crisis (Yarimar Bonilla et al.)
• After María, Puerto Ricans Cultivate Food Sovereignty While FEMA Delivered Skittles and Cheez-Its (Democracy Now!)
• The Caribbean Syllabus: Life and Debt in the Caribbean (Frances Negrón-Muntaner)
• Puerto Rico’s $123 Billion Bankruptcy is the Cost of US Colonialism
• The “Battle for Paradise”: Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism and the Fight for Puerto Rico’s Future (Democracy Now!)

Public Health and Housing

• In Puerto Rico, Many of the 3,000 Deaths Were Slow and Painful. Just Like the Recovery (Time, Sept. 20, 2018)
• On Hurricane Maria Anniversary, Puerto Rico Is Still in Ruins (NYT, Sept. 20, 2018)
• The Weight of Water on Women: The Long Wake of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico (OXFAM Report, Sept. 16, 2018)
• The Deaths of Hurricane María (Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Sept. 14, 2018)
• Ascertainment of the Estimated Excess Mortality From Hurricane María in Puerto Rico (George Washington University and UPR). August 2018.
• Despair and Anxiety: Puerto Rico’s ‘Living Emergency’ as a Mental Health Crisis Unfolds (The Guardian, Aug. 7, 2018)
• CPI and CNN Investigation: Records Suggest PR Saw a Leptospirosis Outbreak after Hurricane María-but Officials Won’t Call It That (CPI)
• Exodus: The Post-Hurricane Puerto Rican Diaspora, Mapped
• Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (NEJM)
• Hurricane Maria was One of the 10 Most Intense Atlantic Basin Hurricanes (Weather Channel)
• FEMA Says It Underestimated the Devastation Hurricane Maria Would Have on Puerto Rico (CBS News)
• 1,427 deaths: Puerto Rico is coming clean about Hurricane Maria’s true toll – Vox  (August 9, 2018)
• “Puerto Rican Government Acknowledges Hurricane Death Toll of 1,427  – New York Times (August 9, 2018)

General Resources

• Acosta Belén, Edna, and Carlos Santiago, eds. Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2006.
• Ayala, César and Rafael Bernabé. Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898. Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina P, 2007.
• Duany, Jorge. The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States. Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina P, 2002.
• Duany, Jorge. Puerto Rico: What Everyone Wants to Know. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
• Flores, Juan. From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
• González, Juan. Harvest of Empire. New York: Penguin Books, 2011.
• Trías Monge, José. Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.
• 11 Books to Help You Understand What’s Going on in Puerto Rico (Bustle)

Published Studies on the Impact of Hurricane Maria

• The Deaths of Hurricane María (Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Sept. 14, 2018)
• Almost 200,000 People Flee Puerto Rico in the Year Since Hurricane Maria (Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Sept. 20, 2018)
• The Weight of Water on Women: The Long Wake of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico (OXFAM Report, Sept. 16, 2018)
• Ascertainment of the Estimated Excess Mortality From Hurricane María in Puerto Rico (George Washington University and UPR. August 2018)
• Mortality in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria (The New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard U., May 2018)
• The Housing Crisis in Puerto Rico and the Impact of Hurricane María (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)

Cultural Production about Hurricane María

• Creativity From the Chaos of Hurricane Maria (NYT, Sept. 20, 2018)
• Reggaetón And The Search For Identity After Hurricane María
• Martorell, Antonio. “¿Quéslaque? Es la que…” (art exhibit)
• “No Longer Ode,” Urayoán Noel. August 2018.
• Miranda-Rodríguez, Edgardo. Ricanstruction: Reminiscing and Rebuilding Puerto Rico. May 29, 2018.
• Lopez, Marco et al. Puerto Rico Strong: A Comics Anthology Supporting Puerto Rico Disaster Relief and Recovery. Canada: Lion Forge, 2018.
• Santos Febres, Mayra. Huracanada. San Juan: Trabalis, 2018.
• Santos Febres, Mayra, ed. Cuentos de huracán. 2018.

Audiovisual Materials

• Puerto Rico: The Exodus After Hurricane Maria (CBS, airs Sept. 23, 2018)
• Breaking Big: Carmen Yulín Cruz (PBS, 2018)

Listening to Puerto Rico in the Media

• Notre Dame press release
• Michigan press release
• LPR in 80 grados
• WSBT interview