1.  If possible, see the film Almost a Woman (PBS Pictures: An ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre’s American Collection Presentation, 2002) based on Esmeralda Santiago’s prize-winning memoir. (If desired, can be bought at www.pbs.org  The VHS version is B8740. ISBN 0-7806-4007-1)

2.  Go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/index.html
Click on “Essays and interviews”, then “Puerto Ricans in America”.  Read the essays by
• Sonia Nieto, author
• Virginia Sánchez Korro, professor and chairperson of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY
• Félix Matos Rodríguez, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY--http://www.centropr.org-- and an Associate Professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies.

3. Read comments from viewers at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/forum/woman.html

4. Check out http://www.centropr.org/index.html, the website of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro de estudios puertorriqueños) at Hunter College, City University of New York.