Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York Ficción and the intricate balance between

and the intricate balance between cultural preservation and political change will find this book invaluable

el mercantilismo y el reformismo borbónico fallido

--Patti Smith

pero más que un sentimiento el amor es una forma de estar presente"

Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York Ficción and the intricate balance betweenWhen Bernardo Vega arrived in New York from Puerto Rico in 1916, he was at the forefront of a migrant stream that was soon to become a flood. His memoirs perceptive, lively, and politically aware provide us with a unique and often humorous firsthand account of the life of an immigrant, as well as of the concerns and activities of the Puerto Rican community in New York in the period between the wars. A true worker intellectual, a cigar maker by trade,