DPC’s Resource List




Podcasts/YouTube Videos:


 Puerto Rico: A Living History

 Throughline Podcast: Puerto Rico


Bianca Graulau’s YT Channel

 The Story of Imperialism in Puerto Rico



Documentaries:


 Vieques, Puerto Rico – Documental Histórico

 La Operación


Literature on Puerto Rican History:

The Boricua-Macheteros Popular Army
Origins, Program, and Struggle 		Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
Puerto Rico’s Revolt for Independence: El Grito de Lares Olga Jimenez de Wageheim
America’s Last Fortress: Puerto Rico’s Sovereignty, China’s Caribbean Belt and Road, and America’s National Security Alexander Odishelidze
The Intellectual Roots of Independence: an anthology of Puerto Rican political essays Iris M. Zavala & Rafael Rodriguez
Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico A.W. Maldonado
We the Puerto Rican People: A Story of Oppression and Resistance Juan Angel Silén
The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists Naomi Klein
Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 Eileen J. Suárez Findlay
American Colonialism in Puerto Rico: The Judicial and Social Legacy Efrén Rivera Ramos
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity: Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism Sherina Feliciano-Santos
Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire (Studies in Legal History) Sam Erman
Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution Christina Duffy Burnett & Burke Marshall
Puerto Rico: Las Penas De La Colonia Mas Antigua Del Mundo José Trías Monge
Revolution Around the Corner: Voices from the Puerto Rican Socialist Party in the U.S. José E. Velázquez (Editor), Carmen V. Rivera (Editor), Andres Torres (Editor)
The War Against All Puerto Ricans Nelson Denis
Escritos Macheteros Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
Pedro Albizu Campos: Escritos Pedro Albizu Campos
Ramon Emeterio Betances: Obras completas (Vol. IV): Escritos politicos: proclamas, discursos, estudios (Spanish Edition) Ramon Emeterio Betances
Toward’s Peoples War For Independence And Socialism In Puerto Rico: In Defense of Armed Struggle N/A

Literature on Socialism:

Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism Michael Parenti
The State and Revolution Vladimir Lenin
What Is to Be Done? Vladimir Lenin
The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon
We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings Jalil Muntaqim
The Foundations of Leninism Joseph Stalin
Marxism and the National Question Joseph Stalin
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR Joseph Stalin
Dialectical & Historical Materialism Joseph Stalin
Selected Works of Carlos Mariategui Carlos Mariategui
Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle Thomas Sankara
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire
Activist Study Araling Aktibista (ARAK)
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Walter Rodney

Additional Literature:

Mutual Aid Mutual AidDean Spade
Freedom is a Constant Struggle AbolitionDr. Angela Davis
Police Reform Doesn’t Work Police AbolitionBoston Review
Beyond Prisons Prison AbolitionBeyond Prisons Podcast
Are Prisons Obsolete? Prison AbolitionDr. Angela Davis
These Systems Never Work: The Intersections of Environmental Justice and Abolition Abolition/Environmental Justice
Barnard Center for Research on Women
No More Psychiatry: What’s the Alternative? Psychiatry AbolitionUnknown
Intro to Disability Justice Disability JusticeTereza Lopez
10 Principles of Disability Justice Disability JusticeUnknown
Abolition Means Land Back DecolonizationGrace L. Carson
Decolonization is not a Metaphor DecolonizationEve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
All About Love Transformative Justicebell hooks
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us Abolition/Transformative JusticeMariame Kaba