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Index Jesús Colón

Jesús Colón (1901–1974) was a Puerto Rican writer known as the Father of the Nuyorican movement.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 39 relations: African Americans, American Tobacco Company, Émile Zola, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Caribbean, Cayey, Puerto Rico, Communist Party USA, Daily Worker, Don Quixote, English language, Esmeralda Santiago, House Un-American Activities Committee, José Julián Acosta, Karl Marx, Latin America, List of ethnic groups of Africa, List of Puerto Rican writers, List of Puerto Ricans, McCarthyism, Miguel de Cervantes, New York City, Nicholasa Mohr, Nuyorican movement, Pedro Pietri, Piri Thomas, Puerto Rican literature, Puerto Rico, Río de la Plata (Puerto Rico), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Socialism, Spanish language, Spanish–American War, SS Carolina, Tobacco, United States Bill of Rights, University at Albany, SUNY, Vignette (literature), Washington, D.C..

  2. Puerto Rican non-fiction writers
  3. Puerto Rican people of African descent

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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American Tobacco Company

The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter, Goodwin & Company, and Kinney Brothers.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (also,; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Cayey, Puerto Rico

Cayey, officially Cayey de Muesas, is a mountain town and municipality in central Puerto Rico located on the Sierra de Cayey within the Central Mountain range, north of Salinas and Guayama; south of Cidra and Caguas; east of Aibonito and Salinas; and west of San Lorenzo.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Daily Worker

The Daily Worker was a newspaper published in Chicago founded by communists, socialists, union members, and other activists.

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Esmeralda Santiago

Esmeralda Santiago (born May 17, 1948)Santiago, Esmeralda.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

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José Julián Acosta

José Julián Acosta (February 16, 1825 – August 26, 1891), was a journalist and an advocate of the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico.

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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List of ethnic groups of Africa

The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.

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List of Puerto Rican writers

This is a list of Puerto Rican literary figures, including poets, novelists, short story authors, and playwrights.

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List of Puerto Ricans

This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicholasa Mohr

Nicholasa Mohr (born November 1, 1938) is one of the best known Nuyorican writers, born in the United States to Puerto Rican parents. Jesús Colón and Nicholasa Mohr are American Book Award winners.

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Nuyorican movement

The Nuyorican movement is a cultural and intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are Puerto Rican or of Puerto Rican descent, who live in or near New York City, and either call themselves or are known as Nuyoricans.

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Pedro Pietri

Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944 – March 3, 2004) was a Puerto Rican poet and playwright and one of the co-founders of the Nuyorican Movement.

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Piri Thomas

Piri Thomas (born Juan Pedro Tomas; September 30, 1928 – October 17, 2011) was a Puerto Rican-Cuban writer and poet whose memoir Down These Mean Streets became a best-seller.

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Puerto Rican literature

Puerto Rican literature is the body of literature produced by writers of Puerto Rican descent.

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Puerto Rico

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Río de la Plata (Puerto Rico)

The La Plata River (Río de la Plata) is the longest river in Puerto Rico.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Spanish–American War

The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.

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SS Carolina

The SS Carolina was a passenger liner; it was one of six vessels sunk on a single day during World War I by the German submarine U-151 on "Black Sunday".

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Tobacco

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants.

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United States Bill of Rights

The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

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University at Albany, SUNY

The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York.

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Vignette (literature)

A vignette (also) is a French loanword expressing a short and descriptive piece of writing that captures a brief period in time.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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See also

Puerto Rican non-fiction writers

Puerto Rican people of African descent

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesús_Colón