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Word Up welcomes Jorell A. Melendez-Badillo for the paperback launch of Puerto Rico: A National History, a bestselling panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today. In conversation with Melendez-Badillo will be Aurora Santiago Ortiz, professor of Gender & Women Studies and Chicane & Latine Studies at UW-Madison.
Puerto Rico: A National History is an engaging, sometimes personal, and consistently surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, offering new perspectives not only on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean but on the United States and the Atlantic world more broadly.