Tribute to Rafael Hernández

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2010

BOBBY SANABRIA AND THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA PRESENT A TRIBUTE HONORING

Rafaél Hernández (1892–1965)
Bobby Sanabria and the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra will pay tribute to Puerto Rico’s greatest composer, Maestro Rafaél Hernández, whose works include such masterpieces as Preciosa and Lamento Borincano and who made history as a trumpeter with bandleader James Reese Europe’s 369th Regiment Harlem Hell Fighters band during World War I.

October 22 / 7:30 PM /
Borden Auditorium, Manhattan School of Music

120 Claremont Avenue

(Broadway and W. 122nd St.)

All tickets $5

For tickets call 917-493-4428

(See attachment for more information)

SATURDAY

Walking Tour — "De un pajáro las dos alas"*: 19th Century Caribbean Political Exiles and Revolutionaries • During the latter part of the 19th century, New York City was a key center of political activities for revolutionaries and exiles from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Dr. Ramón E. Betances, Eugenio María de Hostos and José Martí lived and worked in New York as leaders of the independence movements. Joining them were other important political figures, intellectuals and artists from those two Caribbean countries. In the 1880’s and 90’s, this vibrant community of political émigrés was enhanced by the arrival of the tabaqueros , the tobacco workers. This tour will visit the sites where Cuban and Puerto Rican revolutionaries lived, met and shared their struggles for independence from Spanish colonial domination. Although few of the buildings still exist, we will walk through the neighborhoods and reconstruct history through pictures and stories. The tour has been prepared and will be guided by Elena Martínez, a staff folklorist at City Lore, and Orlando José Hernández, a professor of Humanities at Hostos Community College-CUNY.

Saturday October 9th and 23rd, 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Price : $12; $8 students, seniors, City Lore members
Meeting place : Broadway/Houston subway (F, M, 6). Meet at corner of Houston Street and Broadway, sw corner
For more information or to make reservations : 212.529.1955 x306 or emartinez@citylore.org . Reservations are required. This event is sponsored by City Lore in collaboration with the Center for Puerto Rican Studies.

*This is a line of poetry from Lola Rodríguez de Tio, who was an activist in exile here in the 1890’s.

Bomba & Plena @ Hostos October 6-10

Check http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/culturearts/events.html for the full details

The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture proudly presents the tenth anniversary ofBomPlenazo, its biennial celebration of bomba and plena, Puerto Rico's African-rooted music and dance traditions which remain living, breathing and growing expressions of Puerto Ricans on the island and in diaspora communities. BomPlenazo 2010 will focus on bomba and plena as they are practiced in communities in and around the town of Mayagüez on the West Coast of Puerto Rico.

The Hostos Center proudly dedicates BomPlenazo 2010 to Ángel Luis Torruellas, a native of Mayagüez, who is the undisputed dean of pleneros on both the island and the mainland.

Once again, the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture joins forces with Centro Cultural Rincón Criollo, our principal and esteemed community partner. Also contributing to this celebration are our friends at the Longwood @ Hostos Art Gallery/Bronx Council on the Arts. We also acknowledge the invaluable contributions of our Hostos Community College partners, the Humanities Department and the Office of International Study, which have collaborated in a Creative Campus Project linking the Center's programming to the College's curriculum.

Las Casitas and Inauguration of the Festival
An updated remounting of the legendary Casitas exhibition produced twenty years ago by the Bronx Council on the Arts. The exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., traveled to Chicago and closed at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1991. This remounting will include elements of the original exhibition, as well as elements (photographs, found objects, video footage and musical instruments) reflecting the history of the legendaryCasita de Chema on Brooke Avenue in the Bronx which, for over 30 years, has served as an important forge and incubator of Puerto Rican culture in the Diaspora.

Pleneando con Los Instantáneos del Rincón Criollo
A community jam lead by the resident plena troupe from La Casita de Chema—plena as it was meant to be played and sung: street-corner style. Bring your instruments!

Los Tambores del Sarao ■ Segunda Quimbamba ■
Tito Cepeda y sus Estudiantes
Anthropoligist/writer Ramón López's group in a presentation opening the festival and honoring the legacy of Efraín Mon Rivera and Ángel Luis Torruellas with commentary by López himself – an ode to the two great pleneros from Mayagüez. ■ From New Jersey, the celebrated family-based bomba y plena ensemble directed by Juan Cartagena ■ Master bomba drummer Tito Cepeda is joined by vocalist Miriam Félix in a special program featuring many of the students Tito has mentored over the years.

Rumbacuembé ■ Alma Moyó
One of the most dynamic and innovative bomba and plena groups in the New York area under the direction of Alex LaSalle, native of the Mayagüez region ■ The powerhouse, multi-generational bomba and plena ensemble from the Moca/Mayagüez area under the direction of Ricky Soler, a rumbero originally from New York City who has instilled his rumba sensibilities to the troupe.

Yagüembé ■ Bambulá
Mayagüez's beloved bomba and plena group, representing several generations of virtuoso practitioners under the direction of the great drummer and dancer Don Papo Alers, whose family is paramount in the traditions ■The New York-based, all-woman bomba and plena troupe under the direction of Norka Nadal, scion of one of the great bomba families of Mayagüez who is joined by family members from Rumbacuembé.

Bomberos, Pleneros y BomPleneros
An afternoon of local and visiting groups, including Bombá-yó, José "Dr. Drum" Ortíz, director ■ Matthew y su Cumbalaya, Matthew González director ■ La Tribu de Juan Usera ■ And, direct from San Francisco, special guests Las Bomberas de la Bahía, the all-woman ensemble under the direction of Denise Solís.

Ángel Luis Torruellas ■ Los Pleneros de la 21 ■
Los Tambores de Félix Alduén
The dean of Puerto Rican pleneros accompanied by a special ensemble under the direction of virtuoso trombonist Papo Vázquez ■ One of the bomba and plena world's great treasures under the direction of National Heritage Fellow Juan Gutiérrez ■ Direct from Mayagüez, the young and dynamic plena ensemble named for the legendary Félix Alduén whose bomba and plena troupe was an incubator for many great practitioners from the region, José "Macho" Millán (grandson of Don Félix), director.

Vente-tú (block party, pig roast and jam)
An afternoon of jamming and continuous performances with all the participants at the revered Casita de Chema on Brook Ave. And 157 St. in the Bronx.

Dancing Bomba
Oct 6, 7, 8 (W, Th, F), 5:30 – 7pm. Dance studio.
Norka Nadal, musical director of Bambulá, will conduct this workshop with her cousin,
Liz Saira Díaz Nadal, a member of the Rumbacuembé ensemble from Mayagüez.

The Art of Maskmaking
Oct 7 (Th), 5:30 pm. Hostos Art Gallery/Project Room
Benny Ayala offers a hands-on workshop on the Ponce style of vejigante mask-making. Appropriate for adults and children 8 and above.

Percussion Instruments
Oct 7 (Th), 5:30 pm. Hostos Art Gallery
Artisan José "Chema" Soto and master bomba and plena practitioner José Riverafrom Los Pleneros de la 21 demonstrate the construction of barriles of bomba andpanderos of plena. (A selection of plena made by Chema are on display in the Longwood@Hostos Gallery.)

Los Pleneros de la 21 present Rumbacuembé…In the House
Oct 8 (F), 10am and 12pm (Venue to be announced)
Los Pleneros de la 21's children's series featuring the young bomba and plenapractitioners in Rumbacuembé (See Thurs pm concert), in an interactive lecture/demonstration for school children. Adm: $5. Reservations required. For info, call 212-427-5221, nellietanco@aol.com

Béisbol and Plena: A Film Showing
Oct 8 (F), 5:30 p.m. Hostos Art Gallery
A showing of Los Indios de mi pueblo, a widely acclaimed documentary concieved and written by Roberto Mercado, which explores the relationship between professional baseball in Mayagüez and plena. Many of the great Puerto Rican players have been accomplished pleneros, including the legendary Mon Rivera.

La Casita Speaks Out
Oct 9 (S), 5:00 p.m. Hostos Art Gallery
Founding members and veterans of Centro Cultural Rincón Criollo (La Casita de Chema) speak out during a panel discussion on the history of La Casita and the role it has played in maintaining Afro-Puerto Rican culture in New York City. Participants will include José "Chema" Soto, Doris Asencio, Alex LaSalle, José Rivera, Norma Cruz and others. Discussion will be moderated by radio personality Felipito Palacios

UPR strike is over/Paro en la UPR termina

Dice El Nuevo Herald:

La huelga estudiantil que paralizó la Universidad de Puerto Rico por cerca
de dos meses aparentaba estar cerca de su fin el jueves, mientras
estudiantes y síndicos llegaron a un acuerdo por el cual se pospondrán las
tarifas altas, se salvarán las becas y se protegerá a los líderes de la
huelga de la expulsión automática.

Los estudiantes se fueron a la huelga el 23 de abril en protesta contra los
planes de eliminar las exenciones de pago de matrícula a los alumnos
necesitados que también reciben becas federales. No se espera que las clases
se reanuden hasta después de que los estudiantes voten el lunes sobre el
acuerdo.

Says the NY Times:

Thousands of students at the University of Puerto Rico who went on
strike two months ago to oppose severe budget cuts declared victory on
Thursday after reaching an agreement with administrators.

As part of a deal brokered by a court-appointed mediator, students would end
their strike — one of the largest and longest such walkouts in Puerto Rican
history — in exchange for a number of concessions. Most notably, the
university’s Board of Regents has agreed to cancel a special fee that would
have effectively doubled the cost to attend the university’s 11 public
campuses.

Student Strike at University of Puerto Rico Enters 28th Day/28 dias de paro en la Universidad de Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, an ongoing strike by students at the University of Puerto
Rico is coming to a head. Riot police have surrounded the main gates of the
university’s main campus and are trying to break the strike by denying food
and water to students who have occupied the campus inside. The strike began
nearly four weeks ago in response to budget cuts at the university of more
than $100 million. On Thursday, a mass assembly of more than 3,000 students
voted overwhelmingly to continue the strike. The next day, riot police
seized control of the main campus gates.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=357110&CategoryId=14092
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/17/student_strike_at_university_of_puerto

GRAMMY NOMINATED MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA directed by BOBBY SANABRIA to honor

MAESTRO RAY SANTOS: A LIFE IN LATIN MUSIC

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the School’s BORDEN AUDITORIUM

Concert to feature Ray Santos’s

Suite for Puerto Rico

The recently Grammy nominated

Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra directed by Maestro Bobby Sanabria honors another Maestro, the legendary composer, arranger Ray Santos on Friday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the School’s John C. Borden Auditorium. That evening, showcased will be music that will span Maestro Santos’s entire prolific career. Performed will be specific pieces that he either composed and/or arranged for such legends as Machito & The Afro-Cubans, Tito Puente, Mario Bauza’ as well as his work for the soundtrack of the Mambo Kings and vocalist Linda Rondstat. A program highlight will include Ray Santos’s Suite for Puerto Rico. Bobby Sanabria says, "Maestro Santos’s Suite for Puerto Rico traces the imaginary journey of a native Puerto Rican with his folk music traditions from the mountainside to the modern urban environment of New York City where jazz and mambo rule."

Tickets, priced at $5 are required. They are available at the Manhattan School of Music Concert Office by visiting www.msmnyc.edu or by calling 917 493 4428.

RAY SANTOS -

Born of Puerto Rican parents in New York City where he was raised 80 years ago, is a legendary, four-time Grammy Award winner for Latin music, and Academy Award nominee for Best Song in a Motion Picture - "The Mambo Kings." A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, Ray Santos has played, recorded, composed and arranged for front line orchestras throughout the Latin music industry for more than 50 years. He has collaborated with artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Julio Iglesias, Tito Rodriguez, Tito Puente, and Dizzy Gillespie to name a few. Hailed "El Maestro" by those who have known, worked and studied with him, Santos is considered to be one of the most prodigious contributors to Latin music for the last half-century.

Ray Santos reveled in the atmosphere of the Big Band Era. During this period he absorbed the popular music of his folk traditions from the Caribbean and the Swing Music of the 1930’s and 1940’s. In 1948, while listening to Symphony Sid on the radio, he heard Charlie Parker soloing with Machito and His Afro-Cubans. The thrill of that moment still in his voice, Ray excitedly describes his reaction, "WOW, This is it! This is the real meeting between Jazz and Afro-Cuban Music."

Creative determination compelled the young saxophonist of the 1950’s to arrange and compose music that captured the incessant rhythmic drive of the Afro-Cuban Sound fused with the power and sonority of Big Band Jazz. The ace arranger penned an extensive output of charts, recorded by two generations of the most influential musical figures in contemporary American and Caribbean music, such as Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez. His career from the 1960’s into the early 1980’s matured in Puerto Rico where he wrote and directed music for television, produced recordings for established and emerging Salsa Bands, and played for many top stars in the business. Upon returning to New York, Santos contributed several arrangements to Eddie Palmieri’s 1986 Grammy-winning album in the Latin Music category. His career as a music educator at City College of New York has established him as an authority on Caribbean music, teaching a new generation of musicians. Media and film producers have contracted him as an arranger and music consultant and he remains an artistic innovator in the field.

In 1999 Ray collaborated with Paquito D’Rivera in the production of Maestro D’Rivera’s album, "Tropicana Nights" that was awarded a Tropical Latin Grammy. In December 1999 he co-produced, with David Chesky, the CD titled "The Conga Kings" featuring Candido Camero, Carlos "Patato" Valdes and Giovanni Hidalgo, three world-class exponents of conga drumming. In 2000, Ray Santos did arranging for the "Masterpiece" production with Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri. This CD was awarded a Grammy. A second CD "Conga Kings Jazz Descargas" with Alto Saxophonist Phil Woods, has been recorded and released in July 2001 on Chesky Records.

* * * * *

BOBBY SANABRIA -

Multiple Grammy nominated as a leader and on numerous other projects as a sideman - drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, educator, film-maker, bandleader, and multi-cultural warrior, Bobby Sanabria has performed and recorded with such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaráa, Paquito D’Rivera, Ray Barretto, Candido, Henry Threadgill, Larry Harlow, and Afro-Cuban jazz Godfather, Mario Bauzá. His first solo recording, N.Y.C. Aché’ has been become a cult classic. His first big band recording, Live & in Clave!!!, was nominated for a mainstream Grammy in 2001. In 2003 he was nominated for a Latin Grammy for, "50 Years of Mambo", A Tribute to Damaso Perez Prado. His 2005 Quarteto Aché’ disc was hailed by the critics as giving a new vision to the standard jazz quartet. The readers of DRUM! magazine named him Percussionist of the Year in 2006. His 2007 recording "Big Band Urban Folktales" on the Jazzheads label was a 2008 Grammy nominee. This South Bronx native of Puerto Rican parentage is a 2006 inductee into the Bronx Walk of Fame where he has a street named after him. His latest release, the 2009 "Kenya Revisited Live!!!" on the Jazzheads label is a re-imagining of the legendary "Kenya" album by the Machito Afro-Cubans with incredible new arrangements with Bobby conducting an incredible big band of young lions from Manhattan School of Music that has astounded critics and fans has just been nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Latin Jazz recording of 2009.

He holds a BM from the Berklee College of Music and is on the faculty of the New School and Manhattan School of Music where he conducts Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Bands at both schools. He leads his own Quarteto Aché’, nonet Ascensión, and his multiple Grammy nominated big band. He was associate producer of the TV documentaries "The Palladium: Where Mambo Was King" shown on BRAVO, winner of the IMAGINE award for best TV documentary of 2003 and "From Mambo to Hip Hop", ALMA award, best documentary for TV which was shown on PBS in 2007. He is the author of the acclaimed video series, Getting Started on Congas and he is a featured performer on the DVD, Modern Drummer Festival 2006, from Hudson Music. Mr. Sanabria is featured in the upcoming documentary, LATIN MUSIC USA, which airs on PBS in October 2009.

* * * * *

The recently Grammy-nominated

Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra was established in 2000 by Bobby Sanabria and is made up of an international ensemble of student musicians from both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra has reached international acclaim by performing to standing room only audiences at the 2001 International Association of Jazz Educators Conference (IAJE) as well as other New York City venues such as Birdland, the Jazz Standard and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center. In October 2007, they performed an outdoor concert with Candido Camero on the plaza of the Harlem State Office Building located on 125th Street, as part of MSM’s 90th anniversary celebration. The MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to performing the music of ‘la traditión’ and pays homage to these legends while continuing to pass on and advance the tradition to the next generation by also premiering new works. Jazz artists who have been guest performers with the ensemble include Tom Harrell, David Sanchez, Dave Valentine, Arturo O’Farrill, Hilton Ruiz, Ronnie Cuber, Conrad Herwig, among others.

"Kenya Revisited Live!!!",

featuring Bobby Sanabria and the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra has been nominated for 2009 Best Latin Jazz Album in the Latin Grammys. This recording also features NEA Jazz Master and Living Legend Candido Camero as guest artist. Kenya Revisited Live!!! was recently released on the Jazzheads label, and was recorded at a historic concert held at Manhattan School of Music on April 1, 2008 titled Kenya Revisited. The concert celebrated the 50th anniversary of Machito & The Afro-Cubans 1957 Jazz Masterwork, Kenya, and showcased the legendary recording in its first-ever live performance, in its entirety with updated new arrangements.

Bobby Sanabria says about the recording of

Kenya Revisited Live!!!, "Now 50 years after it was released to the public, we honor Mario Bauzá, Machito, and all of the musicians who participated on the original recording with KENYA REVISITED LIVE!!!! Recorded live in concert, you’ll hear a new generation of players tackle this incredible music as it is re-worked with new progressive arrangements that reflect the current state of jazz virtuosity. Rejoice as the torch is passed to these young fire breathing dragons who have dedicated their lives to America’s greatest art form jazz, and the branch of that art form that represents all of the America’s, Latin jazz."

Lanzamiento del libro: Discografía de la música puertorriqueña

San Juan-New York:

Discografía de la música

puertorriqueña

(1900-1942)

de

Cristóbal Díaz Ayala

Introducción por

Agustiné Vélez

Presentación por el autor

Miércoles 22 de abril de 2009

7:00 PM

Ateneo Puertorriqueño

San Juan

Para más información:

787-708-4025

fundmusicalia@caribe.net

City Lore www.citylore.org	April 1 , 2009
Painting by José Orbein City Lore in collaboration with Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture presents ¡EL TAMBOR LLAMA! TANBOU A RELE! (The Drum Calls) Sacred Drumming Traditions of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico Saturday, April 25, 2009 Hostos Community College/CUNY 450 Grand Concourse at 149 St. The Bronx This program will look at the connections between Afro-Cuban, Afro-Dominican, and Haitian sacred drumming traditions and some of the other cultural expressions connected to them. The day-long program would feature a keynote speaker, dance and music performances of the three traditions, panel discussions of scholars discussing the languages—poetic and ritual—of the three cultures, and the Congo heritage in the Caribbean, and an exhibit of the line drawings common to all traditions. PROGRAM 1:00pm, Keynote address "The Kongo Atlantic Visual Tradition" Dr. Robert Farris Thompson 2:00-3:45pm, Panel discussion "Voices of the Sacred: Abakuá, Lucumí and Vodoú" Dr. Oluseye Adesola, Dr. Ivor Miller, Dr. Lois Wilcken 4:00-5:45pm, Panel discussion "¿Qué palo es? What Congo tradition are you from?" Dr. Martha Ellen Davis, Alex LaSalle, Dr. Ivor Miller, Dr. Marta Moreno Vega Moderator: Dr. Roberta Singer 7:30-9:30pm, Concert Pa'lo Monte, La Troupe Makandal, Proyecto Enyenison Enkama Emcee: Ned Sublette All day long in the lobby there will be an exhibition of artwork related to these traditions by José Orbein, Kesler Pierre, and Osvaldo Sánchez, as well as books for sale. Admission for the concert: $15 (all other events are free) For tickets please call the Hostos Box Office at 718-518-4455 or go to Hostos events website. For more information please call City Lore at 212-529-1955 x306 or emartinez@citylore.org. Subway direction to Hostos Community College: #2, 4, 5 stop right there at 149th St. & Grand Concourse. Funding provided by National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Sherman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and New York Council for the Humanities.
City Lore | www.citylore.org | 72 East 1st St. New York, NY 10003 t | 212.529.1955 f | 212.529.5062 e | info@citylore.org

Suzanne Vega on intellectual property, mothering the MP3, and not being half Puerto Rican

I'm not exactly a huge Suzanne Vega (remember "Luka" and "Tom's Diner"?) but this blog post of hers gets more interesting as it goes along, as she ruminates on intellectual property

"I had to go back to all the people who had taken the song without permission, and ask their permission . . . to use their version of my song!"

on being called "the mother of the MP3"

"I ran home and found the article online. The title was “Ich Bin Ein Paradigm Shifter: The MP3 Format is a Product of Suzanne Vega’s Voice and This Man’s Ears.” “The MP3 fools the ear by eliminating the least essential parts of a music file…To create MP3 [Karl-Heinz] Brandenberg had to appreciate how the human ear perceives sound. A key assist in this effort came from Suzanne Vega. ‘I was ready to fine-tune my compression algorithm,’ Brandenberg recalls. “Somewhere down the corridor a radio was playing “Tom’s Diner.” I was electrified. I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a capella voice.”

and some interesting stuff about race, not least of which is her own history:

"It was astonishing to me to hear that the kids at Joan of Arc Junior High on West 93rd Street were dancing in the street to it one day, since as a kid growing up on the Upper West Side, I was ostracized in some of my classes for being “white.” In African Dance class in 1972, I was smacked in the back of the head for being there at all. (I was raised in a half-Puerto-Rican family, as half-Puerto Rican. I found out at the age of nine or so that I actually had a different father from my brothers and sister — my birth father was English-Scottish-Irish from California.)"

Plus it has some cool remixes of "Tom's Diner."

Daddy Yankee endorses McCain / Daddy Yankee sale a favor de McCain

Weird, right?
McCain on DY: "I just want to say thank you Daddy Yankee," said McCain, who also referred to him as Ramon, since his given name is Ramon Ayala. McCain said Yankee has been married 15 years, had grown up poor in Puerto Rico and made "the right choice" in life.
DY on McCain: "I believe in his ideals and his proposals to lead this nation" and that McCain was the best "fighter for the immigration issue."
Immigration, mostly from the Dominican Republic, is a huge deal in Puerto Rico...
Link

Conference: Race in the Transnational Caribbean

In an attempt to develop an intellectual space for inter-disciplinary perspectives on Latinos and race, the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies has organized a day-long conference that will begin with a panel in which three scholars, Ginetta Candelario (Smith College), Jorge Duany (University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras), and Isar Godreau (University of Puerto Rico - Cayey) will showcase work on various topics related to race in the Caribbean and Caribbean communities in the U.S.

Through this conference we hope to begin a process of developing dialogues that transcend the traditional Black-white U.S. racial binary and recognize the nuanced ways in which Latinos have come to impact the country’s racial landscape.

The public panel is open to faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff.

Coordinated by Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas & Carlos Decena
Department of Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Rutgers University/New Brunswick-Piscataway
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race & Ethnicity

Date: Friday, April 4, 2008
Time: 2:00 pm
Place: Graduate Student Lounge
College Avenue Campus Center
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

For more information contact
The Department of Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies at 732-445-3820
http://latcar.rutgers.edu

Research Job at Hunter's Centro de Estudios Puertoriqueños

Subject: Job: Research Associate - Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños (Centro) @ Hunter College www.centropr.org/research.html

THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Hunter College
Title		Research Associate
Location/Department		Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños
Position Detail
FLSA Status		Exempt
Compensation		$32,842 - $70,000
Web Site		www.hunter.cuny.edu
Notice Number		MP14189
Closing Date		Open until filled with review of resumes to begin 11/5/07
POSITION DESCRIPTION AND DUTIES
	The Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños (Centro), the only University-based research institute in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the Puerto Rican experience, seeks a researcher with expertise in any one of the wide range of disciplines within history, the social sciences or behavioral sciences, including those interdisciplinary in nature, to complement its current research capacity. The Research Associate responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Conduct research and disseminate findings in subjects such as Puerto Rican popular culture; 20th century Puerto Rican history in the United States; applied social sciences regarding Puerto Rican/Latino communities in at least one of, but not limited to, the following areas: economics, demography, urban planning, applied social research, social policy, social welfare, social work and sociology; public health, or community organizing; • Write proposals and grants to fund research projects; • Produce and assist in drafting reports, journal articles, policy briefs, press statements, opinion-editorials; • Engage in collaborative research projects with other Centro staff and have familiarity with interdisciplinary research and methodologies; • Support and perform other research and policy related duties as assigned by the Director; and • Participate on Centro-wide staff committees as a volunteer or assigned.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
	A Ph.D. (or related doctorate) is required and must have demonstrated research ability. The successful candidate will be self motivated, have excellent organizational skills and must work effectively both as part of a team and independently. Centro seeks a person with a strong commitment to the Puerto Rican/Latino community and knowledge of the socioeconomic conditions of Puerto Ricans/Latinos. S/he should have familiarity with both qualitative and quantitative research methods in the social sciences and/or behavior sciences or historical methods and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies. Other qualifications include: professional and/or academic experience in history, the social sciences, the behavioral sciences, or related interdisciplinary fields; excellent research and writing skills; ability to manage a number of different projects simultaneously, with varying degrees of responsibility and priority; to meet deadlines; self motivation; and accept and incorporate on feedback. Candidates should also be familiar with the Centro’s research agenda and research principles (www.centropr.org/research.html) Bilingual English/Spanish writing skills a plus.
TO APPLY		Qualified applicants should send a letter of interest, a CV, a relevant writing sample of no more than 25 pages and a list of three references to:
Address:		José de Jesús Associate Director for Administration Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065 Fax: 212- 650-3673

The City University of New York

An Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Immigration Reform and Control Act/

Americans with Disabilities Act Employer

Last Updated: 10/22/07

Adios Tito Gómez

El fallecido cantante boricua quien se hizo famoso en los grupos de Tomy Olivencia y el Grupo Niche, fue sepultado en su tierra natal de Juana Díaz, PR.

Enlace

Tego Calderón on Black Prode / Tego habla del orgullo negro

This from Raquel Rivera's blog Reggaetonica. Reggaetón pioneer Tego Calderón in the NY Post talking about Black Latinos between pride and discrimination - here.

Esto del blog de Raquel Rivera, Reggaetonica. Tego, en el New York Post, hablando de los latinos negros entre el orgullo y la discriminación - aquí (traducido).


<- Tego tiene madera.