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Overview
Winner of the 1981 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award.Laviera celebrates the Puerto Rican experience in New York providing a gallery of portraits of the indomitable inhabitants of the enclave, whose lives are evoked through soulful rhythmic songs.
"Enclave serves as a very timely manifestation of the modern Hispanic. It would probably be a very appropriate text in a high school or college Puerto Rican studies or Chicano studies class.
Synopsis
Winner of the 1981 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award.
Laviera celebrates the Puerto Rican experience in New York providing a gallery of portraits of the indomitable inhabitants of the enclave, whose lives are evoked through soulful rhythmic songs.
"Enclave serves as a very timely manifestation of the modern Hispanic. It would probably be a very appropriate text in a high school or college Puerto Rican studies or Chicano studies class.