SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
FROM THE GASTON INSTITUTE



Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
Special Issue: Puerto Rican Poverty and Labor Markets
Edited by Edwin Melendez and Clara Rodriquez
Published by Sage Publications, Inc., Newbury Park, CA February 1992, Volume 14, Number 1, $12.00

Puerto Rican Poverty and Labor Markets: An Introduction Clara Rodriguez and Edwin Melendez Trends in Labor Market Position for Puerto Ricans on the Mainland: 1970-1987 Luis M. Falcon and Charles Hirsehman Household Composition, Employment Patterns, and Income Inequality: Puerto Ricans in New York and Other Areas of the United States Mainland Havidan Rodriguez The Effects of Local Labor Market Conditions on Labor Force Participation of Puerto Rican, White, and Black Women Edwin Melendez and Janis Barry Figueroa. Welfare Dependency among Chicanos and Puerto Ricans: The Milwaukee Case William Velez. Patterns of Puerto Rican Segregation and Mobility Anne M. Santiago. Nativity, Gender, and Earnings Discrimination Andres Torres Problematizing the Notion of Puerto Ricans as "Underclass": A Step toward a Decolonizing Study of Poverty Antonia Darder


Latinos in Boston: Confronting Poverty, Building Community
A background paper for Beyond Poverty:
Building Community through New Perspectives,
a Roundtable Series about Poverty in Boston
Published by the Boston Foundation, Boston, MA
February 1992, Volume 14, Number 1, $12.00

Contra Viento Y Marea (Against All Odds): Latinos Build nations of Latino Poverty: Immigration, the Underclass, Community in Boston Miren Uriarte, Ph.D. Latinos in the and Labor Market Disadvantages Edwin Melendez Midst of Plenty Paul Osterman, Ph.D. Latinos in Boston: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Latino Experience Carol Hardy-Fanta Ph.D. Appendix A: Competing Explantions of Latino Poverty: Immigration, the Underclass, and Labor Market Disadvantages Edwin Melendez Appendix B: List of Latino Community Agencies in Boston


Radical America
Special Double Issue: Puerto Rico: A Colonial Dilemma
Published by Alternative Education Project, Inc., Somerville, MA
Volume 23, No. 1, June 14, 1990, $8.95

Introduction Edwin Melendez and Edgardo Melendez Reworking the Colonial Formula: Puerto Rico into the 21st Century Pedro A. Caban The Puerto Rican Socioeconomic "Model": its Effect on Present Day Politics and the Plebiscite Carmen Gautier-Mayoral Will Puerto Rico Become the 51st State? Edgardo Melendez Politics and Economic Reform in Postwar Puerto Rico Edwin Melendez The National Question in Puerto Rico Juan Manuel Carrion The Roots of Puerto Rican Feminism: The Struggle for Universal Suffrage Vamila Azize-Vargas Migrants, Citizenship and Social Pacts Frank Bonilla Industrial Reconversion and Economic Restructuring: The Challenge for the Puerto Rican Labor Movement Carlos Ala Santiago Rivera American Solidarity with Puerto Rico: Rockwell Kent, 1937 Carlos Rodriquez Fraticelli Chronology of Events: Puerto Rico 1898-1990 Carmen Gautier-Mayoral.