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Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement
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She wanted faculty and students to join her and guide her in reclaiming and retrieving what had been broken into pieces and scattered to the wind—the sounds, sensibilities, wisdom, knowledge, and life strategies of multiple peoples made black by a colonialist brush. But no one understood this as theological work to be done.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
This was especially true after the passage in 1948 of Public Law 53, otherwise known as La Ley de la Mordaza (the Law of the Muzzle or Gag Law), which outlawed any mention of independence, the whistling of “La Borinqueña,” or ownership of a Puerto Rican flag.18
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
Creativity As Resistance
La Mordaza / The Gag Law: The Attempt to Crush the Independence Movement in Puerto Rico (1948-1957)
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than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).