My thoughts

I think that it’s truly important for Puerto Rican scholars and mostly North Americans to study the Nuyorican Movement since its part of their history and society, although some have tried to deny it. The Nuyorican Movement and the works of their members, artists and writers, have been often considered as a movement of “strangers” and “foreign literature” when in fact, it’s from people who were and are part of the United States, even though they were not ask to be part of it. Puerto Ricans were colonized by force by the United States, without the consideration of their wishes, of wanting or not to belong to the United States. This, of course, had deeply consequences in a society culturally so much different from their colonizers, which were deposit in the literary works of the period.

I believe that Nicholasa Mohr, as one of the first woman writers who depicted the role of women into the hostile environment of New York City during the massive migrations of Puerto Ricans after the World War II, should be studied among more students, be teach by more schoolteachers and be consider as an important part of the English Literature. This writer could enrich more the literature teaching, by providing a woman perspective of the sociological issues that confronted the women during the 20th century, who were seemed as a foreign in their own new country. And it’s also important, since these issues still present today; as Puerto Ricans keeps migrating to the United States constantly and the discrimination haven’t disappeared, in spite of the decades of colonization.