Puerto Rico
Students to study Puerto Rico and colonialism through Bad Bunny’s latest album
Albert Laguna, an associate professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration at Yale University, is teaching a new class this semester called “Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics.” The course will put Bad Bunny’s music into context and teach students about the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States, which is a key theme Bad Bunny explores in his lyrics. The World’s Bianca Hillier went to Yale’s campus to learn more.
‘Colonialism is scary as hell’: Puerto Rican activists in Chicago stage a haunted house
The spooky, interactive experience uses archival audio and video, as well as original art, to trace different periods in the history of Puerto Rico, from the 16th-century Spanish colonization through the United States takeover in 1898 and, finally, Hurricane Maria.
Puerto Rico’s new land-use zoning map strikes a nerve with fed-up citizens
The proposed map could potentially speed up the development of — and radically transform — popular natural landscapes and historically protected urban architecture. It was rolled out in the midst of an unprecedented political uprising, which might have doomed the proposal to obscurity. Instead, it struck a nerve.
In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Dorian’s tropical winds blow up fear and frustration among residents
The islands — still recovering, slowly and haltingly, from the catastrophic impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 — dodged a bullet, but the threat of a direct hit was enough to trigger the entire country into a state of anxious preparation and reflection.