RESISTANCE READING

Puerto Rico/Boriken has been engaged in an anti-colonial resistance struggle for over 500 years, beginning with Taino and African resistance against the spanish conquistadors, to the Puerto Rican Nationalists and clandestine liberation struggle against the united states, and the self determination, autonomy and decolonizing resistance movements that exist today.  

The AAA Resistance Reading list consists of radical reading for rebel Ricans, cultural conspirators and artonomous allies seeking more information/knowledge about our-story of liberation and resistance.  

Liberation Libros:  

1. The Young Lords: A Radical History  

By Johanna Fernandez  

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press (february 17, 2020)  

 

2. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico takes on the Disaster Capitalist  

by Naomi Klein  

Publisher: Haymarket Books (June 5, 2018)  

 

3. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony  

by Nelson Denis  

Publisher: Bold Type Books; Reprint edition (March 29, 2016)  

 

4. Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords 1969-1976  

by Iris Morales  

Publisher: Red Sugarcane Press (September 3, 2016)  

 

5. Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry  

By Pedro Pietri  

Publisher: City Lights Publishers (October 27, 2015  

 

6. Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico  

by Guillermo A. Baralt 

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers (December 17, 2014)  

 

7. Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon  

By Vanessa Perez Rosario  

Publisher: University of Illinois Press (October, 28, 2014)  

 

8. Juana Colón y la lucha de la mujer obrera  

by by Bianca M. Medina  

Publisher: Huracan (2014)  

 

9. Oscar Lopez Rivera: Between Torture and Resistance  

by Oscar Lopez Rivera  

Publisher: PM Press; 1 edition (February 14, 2013)  

 

10. Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the left in Puerto Rico, 1897 - 1921 by Kirwin R. Shaffer  

Publisher: University of Illinois Press; 1st edition (May 8, 2013)  

 

11. Last of the Po’ Ricans y Otros Afro-Artifacts  

By Not4Prophet  

Publisher: 2Leaf Press; 1st edition (November 25, 2013)  

 

12. Palante: Young Lords Party  

by Young Lords Party  

Publisher: Haymarket Books; Reprint edition, (July 26, 2011)  

 

13. A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out  

by Luisa Capetillo  

Publisher: Arte Público Press (September 14, 2011) 

 

14. Outlaw: The Collected Works of Miguel Pinero  

By Miguel Pinero  

Publisher: Arte Publico (september 30, 2010)  

 

15. The Young Lords A Reader  

by Darrel Enk-Wanzer/Editor: Iris Morales/Forward: Denise Oliver-Velez Publisher: NYU Press (November 3, 2010)  

https://archive.org/details/YoungLordsTheYoungLordsAReader/page/n3  

 

16. Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes  

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (July 13, 2009)  

 

17. Absolute Equality: An Early Feminist Perspective  

by Luisa Capetillo  

Publisher: Arte Publico Pr; 1st edition (November 30, 2008)  

 

18. Filiberto Ojeda Rios: Su Propuesta, Su Vision  

by Jose Elias Torres  

Publisher: Ediciones Callejon Inc (October 20, 2006)  

 

19. We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords by Miguel Melendez  

Publisher: Rutgers University Press (February 4, 2005)  

 

20. The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora by Andres Torres  

Publisher: Temple University Press (July 7, 1998)  

 

21. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos 

By Julia de Burgos 

Publisher: Curbstone Books (january 1997)  

 

22. Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico  

by Arlene M. Davila  

Publisher: Temple University Press (October 16, 1997)  

 

23. Prisoners of Colonialism: The Struggle for Justice in Puerto Rico  

by Ronald Fernandez  

Publisher: Common Courage Pr (March 1, 1994)  

 

24. Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity  

by Juan Flores  

Publisher: Arte Publico Press (January 1, 1992)  

 

25. Arthur Alphonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile and Collector  

by Elinor Des Verney Sinnette  

Publisher: Wayne State University Press (February 1, 1989)  

 

26. Los Macheteros: The Wells Fargo Robbery and the Violent Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence by Ronald Fernandez  

Publisher: Prentice Hall; First Edition edition (1987)  

 

27. Towards People’s War and Socialism in Puerto Rico: In Defense of Armed Struggle Publisher: Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (1979)  

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/armed-struggle.pdf  

 

28. Puerto Rico: The Flame of Resistance  

By The Peoples Press Puerto Rico project 

Publisher: People’s Press; First edition (1977)  

https://libcom.org/files/REVISED.PUERTO-RICO-FLAME-OF-RESISTANCE-copy-1-45.pdf  

 

29. Albizu Campos: Puerto Rican Revolutionary  

By Federico Ribes Tovar  

Publisher: Plus Ultra (1971)  

http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC29_scans/29.tovar.albizu.campos.1971.pdf  

 

30. Down These Mean Streets  

by Piri Thomas  

Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (November 25, 1997, originally published 1967)  

https://ingl3109litofgrowingup.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/8/5/7685869/down_these_mean_streets_part_1a. pdf  

 

31. PALANTE (Newspaper)  

By Young Lords  

Published: Young Lords Party  

http://dlib.nyu.edu/palante/