Puerto Rico Is in the Heart: Emigration, Labor, and Politics in the Life and Work of Frank Espada

Edward J. Carvalho is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is co-editor of Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era, guest editor for the Works and Days special journal issue Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University (2008-2009), and author of solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short (2007).

Introduction. 1. Beloved and Reviled 2. "We came to this country broke" 3. "[N]ot good enough" 4. Organizing: "[A] Question of Survival" 5. Conclusion: The Return Postscript: "Without love..."