CENTRO Journal vol. XXXVII, no. 3, Fall 2025

CENTRO JOURNAL Fall 2025 | VOLUME 37 | NUMBER 3 

SPECIAL ISSUE: Diasporic Puerto Rican Communities in Transformation

Editores invitades / Guest Editors: Elizabeth Aranda, Delia Fernández-Jones, and Simone Delerme

Introduction: Contemporary Approaches and Future Directions For Research on Puerto Rican Diasporic Communities 

Elizabeth Aranda, Delia Fernández-Jones, and Simone Delerme

“Desplazados de su tierra: trabajadores agrícolas migrantes puertorriqueños”, serie fotográfica de Farrique Pesquera y recuento visual de una experiencia migratoria en dos épocas

Mariel Y. Quiñones Vélez y Farrique Pesquera

El Barrio’s Taíno Towers: Placemaking and the Puerto Rican Diaspora’s Heritage
Andrés Santana-Miranda

Curating Puerto Rican Art and Identity in Central Florida

Idaliz Román Pérez

Boricua Contexts: Race, Place, and Identity in the Puerto Rican Diaspora
Janelle Ashley Viera and Vanesa Ribas

Aging in Puerto Rican Placekeeping as Feminist Praxis

Lisa Ortiz-Guzmán

Where Are We When We Are Diasporing? Digital Placemaking and Puerto Rican Diasporic Narratives and Identity Formation in Digital Spaces

Joel Morales

INTERVIEW

Vaivén: 21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora. An Interview with Teréz Iacovino and José López Serra

Ángel Antonio Ruiz Laboy

BOOK REVIEWS

Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico, by Jose Atiles

Reviewed by Alvin Padilla-Babilonia

Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez

Reviewed by Susanna V. Temkin

Carceral Citizens: Labor and Confinement in Puerto Rico, by Caroline M. Parker

Reviewed by Michael Reyes Salas

San Juan gay: hacia una historia LGBTQ+ de Puerto Rico, por Javier E. Laureano

Reviewed by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

IN MEMORIAM

Blanca Vázquez (December 1947–July 2025)

Ay Blanca For Blanca Vázquez, by Robert David Cohen

Blanca and Me, by José Luis Medina