CENTRO Journal vol. XXXVIII, no. 1, Spring 2026

CENTRO JOURNAL Spring 2026 | VOLUME 38 | NUMBER 1

 

SPECIAL ISSUE: The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition, Volume 1

 

Editores invitades / Guest Editors: José A. Laguarta Ramírez, Sandy Plácido, Iris Morales, and Saulo M. Colón Zavala

 

Interrogating the Puerto Rican Radical Tradition

José A. Laguarta Ramírez, Sandy Plácido, Iris Morales, and Saulo M. Colón Zavala

 

Tomás Carrión Maduro and the Afro–Puerto Rican Republican Challenge to Colonial Civility, 1890–1920

José I. Fusté

 

Portrait of Mercedes Arroyo: A Black Puerto Rican Communist in Cold War New York

José A. Laguarta Ramírez

 

Unstarched Skirts: the Asociación de Mujeres Progresistas de Puerto Rico

María Julia Hernández Sáez

 

José Luis González in Nueva York

Cristina Pérez Jiménez

 

Una comunista con la bandera puertorriqueña en la solapa: Ana Livia Cordero y la nueva lucha de independencia de Puerto Rico (1946–1971)

Gabriel Díaz Rivera

 

Ana Livia Cordero to Malcolm X: A Radical Portal

Sandy Plácido

 

Climbing Out of the Tomb: La Escalera’s (1966–1973) Strategic Intervention into the Puerto Rican Radical Tradition

Francisco J. Fortuño Bernier

 

Un macetaso al imperialismo: Puerto Rican Studies as a Weapon Against US Imperialism

Ricardo Gabriel

 

The Young Lords: Nationalism and Feminist Organizing

Iris Morales

 

Radical Solidarity

Digna Sánchez

 

From Ice Cream to Insurgency: El Comité-MINP’s 3Cs Framework for Fighting Authoritarianism

Victor Quintana

 

Memoria radical: la carpeta de Chemón y la política de vigilancia en Puerto Rico

Adrianna Ríos

 

Acho, recuerda before I Forget: unx Boricua en Gaza

Libre Sankara

 

 

Book reviews

 

Obstinate Star: A History of the Puerto Rico Independence Movement, by Rafael Bernabe

Reviewed by José Anazagasty Rodríguez

 

Ilusión y ruinas: imaginarios de izquierda en Puerto Rico desde los sesenta, de Carlos Pabón Ortega

Reseñado por Jorge Lefevre Tavárez

 

Cold War Puerto Rico. Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony, by Steve Howell

Reviewed by Sandy Plácido

 

The Young Lords Speak. Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago, edited by Jacqueline Lazú and foreword by José “Cha Cha” Jiménez

Reviewed by Michael R. Gonzales