Boricuas: influential Puerto Rican writings--an anthology

Prologue: Catharsis. Here / Sandra Maria Esteves. Part 1: Pride. To the Persecuted / Jose de Diego

The Sounds of Sixth Street / Martita Morales

A Letter to a Child Like Me / Jose Torres. Part 2: History and politics. It Is Raining Today / Sandra Maria Esteves

How to Know the Puerto Ricans / Jesus Colon

Island of Lost Causes / Esmeralda Santiago

Hallelujahs / Jose de Diego

Puerto Rican Nationalism / Pedro Albizu Campos

On Recent Disturbances in Puerto Rico / Luis Munoz Marin

The Boy Without a Flag / Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.

Grand River of Loiza / Julia de Burgos

The "Lamento Borincano" / Jose Luis Gonzalez

The Party (From Palante! Young Lords Party) / Pablo Guzman

Los Macheteros / Ronald Fernandez

Double Allegiance / Rosario Morales. Part 3: Identity and self-esteem. Child of the Americas / Aurora Levins Morales

Ay Ay Ay, of the Kinky Negress / Julia de Burgos

Puerto Ricans: Between Black and White / Clara E. Rodriguez

Nigger-Reecan Blues / Willie Perdomo

Black and Latino / Roberto Santiago

Babylon for the Babylonians (From Down These Mean Streets) / Piri Thomas

African Things / Victor Hernandez Cruz

The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer

A Mongo Affair / Miguel Algarin. Part 4: Anxiety and assimilation. Puerto Rican Obituary / Pedro Pietri

The Konk / Piri Thomas

The Story of My Body / Judith Ortiz Cofer

To Julia de Burgos / Julia de Burgos

Hangin' (Out) with the Homeboys / Joseph B. Vasquez

Niggerlips / Martin Espada

Little Things Are Big / Jesus Colon

The Docile Puerto Rican - Literature and Psychological Reality / Rene Marques

The American Invasion of Macun (From When I Was Puerto Rican) / Esmeralda Santiago. Part 5: Urban reality. Monday Morning / Pedro Pietri

"Looking Good" / Freddie Prinze

Carlito's Way / Edwin Torres

Short Eyes / Miguel Pinero

Poppa Dio! / Reinaldo Povod

Bayaminina / Pedro Juan Soto

Roots (From Palante! Young Lords Party) / Felipe Luciano. Part 6: Love, faith, and transcendence. I Became My Own Path / Julia de Burgos

Yoruba (From The Santeria Experience) / Migene Gonzalez -Wippler

Aunt Rosana's Rocker / Nicholasa Mohr

Aerobics for Love / Ana Lydia Vega

Malig; Malig & Sal; Sal. (From Dominoes and Other Stories from The Puerto Rican) / Jack Agueros

My Old Flame / Ed Morales

HIV / Miguel Algarin

Poem for My Death / Julia de Burgos

Dedicated to Maria Rodriguez Martinez - February 24, 1975 / Lucky CienFuegos

The Freddie Prinze Story / Maria Graniela de Pruetzel

A Special Kind of Courage: Bernard Carabello / Geraldo Rivera

Loiza Aldea / Victor Hernandez Cruz. Epilogue: Redemption. The Final Act / Jose de Diego.