If you’re looking for a class to fill your summer schedule, The City University of New York’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies, or CENTRO, has a unique option.
A free, online Diasporican Educational Program teaches Puerto Rican history beyond the island’s borders, including the populations of Puerto Ricans who settled on the mainland U.S. in places like Hartford. The name of the program is a play on words combining ‘diaspora’ and ‘Puerto Rican’ to describe the unique group of U.S. citizens who reside outside of their ancestral homeland.
CENTRO Education Director Daicy Diaz-Granados has family in Connecticut, and she made sure to feature the state with the largest proportion of Boricuas in the course curriculum…