<NUEVA YORK(1613-1945)>: The population of New York City is approaching the milestone of being one-third Hispanic, a demographic transformation that will have a huge impact on the city's culture, daily life and its very future. This marks a new phase in New York's relations to the Hispanic world, as Latino cultures and the Spanish language become an ubiquitous and important presence in the city. The roots of this transformation run deep. The history of the city's ties to the Spanish-speaking world is as old as New Amsterdam itself, and is largely unknown. Accompanying a major exhibition organised by the New York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio (an abbreviated version of which will travel through the United States), this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary publication will for the first time make visible these connections and the myriad ways in which they have shaped the city for more than four centuries.
FOREWORD
Louise Mirrer
PREFACE
Marci Reaven
INTRODUGTION
Edward J. Sullivan
NuevA York: The Back Story
Mike Wallace
Permeable Empires: Gommercial Exchanges between
New York and Spanish Possessions before 1800
Cathy Matson
Gubans in Nineteenth-Gentury New York: A Story of Sugar,
War, and Revolution
Lisandro Perez
Puerto Ricans in "Olde" Nueva York: Migrant Colonias of the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Genturies
Virginia Sanchez Korrol
Notes on Writing in Spanish in New York
Carmen Boullosa
Painters, Politics, and Pastries: How New York Became a
Cultural Crossroads of the Americas, 1848-99
Katherine E. Manthorne
Blame It on Washington Irving: New York's Discovery of the
Art and Architecture oFSpain
Richard L. Kagan
Art Worlds of Nueva York
Edward J. Sullivan
The Discovery of'Spain in New York, Girca 1980
James D. Fernandez
Making Nueva York Moderna: Latin American Art,
the International Avant-Gardes, and the New School
Anna Indych-Lopez
BeFore Mambo Time: New York Latin Music in the Early
Decades (199-5-45)
Juan Flores
Contributor Biographies
Selected Bibliography
Index