Flatbush + Main: Listening to Puerto Rican Brooklynites

17/10/2025 49 min
Flatbush + Main: Listening to Puerto Rican Brooklynites

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Episode Synopsis

This episode was originally published on October 31, 2018. In Episode 30 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss Brooklyn Historical Society's Puerto Rican Oral History Project (1973-1975), the institution's first oral history collection, which resulted in over 80 interviews with narrators born as early as the 1880s. They situate this landmark undertaking in the social and intellectual developments of the 1960s and 1970s, from the Civil Rights Movement to the rise of Ethnic Studies programs.