Emerging: Mi Cultura..Mi Jornada-My Culture..My Journey

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*www.obedart.com
*Piano-Midi by Rene Ramos
Song: En Mi Viejo San Juan by Noel Estrada *www.ElYunque.com
*www.turismopr.com(c) PuertoRicoInternetCorp
*Art by Gloria Barreto found on www.islaonline.com
*www.indio.net
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Mis Libros Favoritos*Must Reads

*The Ladies Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets (Previously Published as "A Message from God in the Atomic Age: A Memoir)
Vilar breaks open the vault on her family secrets in this touching, yet painful memoir. Vilar speaks candidly of the mental illness that seemed to run rampant in her family. Her mothers suicide and her own attempt at suicide are spoken of in such a clear manner as to be chilling to the reader. Irene Vilar, 1969

*Cuando Yo Era Puertorriquena (When I was Puerto Rican)
Santiago writes a vivid autobiography of her youth in Puerto Rico. She speaks of her mother in a way that makes the reader feel the confusion she sometimes felt in trying to understand her. She tells the reader what it meant to her to be a Puerto Rican. Santiago manages to bring to the forefront the culture of the Puerto Rican people. Esmeralda Santiago, 1998

*Casi Una Mujer (Almost A Woman)
Santiago continues her autobiography in this moving, sometimes frustrating (for her) account of her coming of age. The battle between her mother and herself, and the cultural belief system she was raised in. She expresses with a refreshing frankness how it felt to be a Puerto Rican suddenly taken from the familiar Isla (Island) of her youth to the strange city of New York.

*Handbook for the Emerging Woman: This is (about) the dance of women opening to the full depth,power,and potency of being a woman. It is women moving with and through their weaknesses, their strengths, their challenges, their defeats, their victories, and their triumphs. Mary Elizabeth Marlow, 1988, 1993

*Savage Inequalities-Children in America's Schools: A Very real account about the school systems, how they operate then and now. Can make you angry if you have a heart, at the injustice towards children in our schools, Fortunately, some of this has changed, but not much. Jonathan Kozol, 1991


Mis Peliculas

*El Callejon de los Milagros (Midaq Alley)
*Fresa Y Chocolate
*Lejania
*Steel Magnolias
*Jack Frost
*Cheaper by the Dozen
*Finding Nemo


Mi Musica

**Classics-All: Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez, Joe Cuba, Pellin Rodriguez, Tito Rodriguez


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