Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
Whalen, Carmen Teresa and Victor Vazquez-Hernandez, The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives
New York Times; 04 Dec 1955: 76 NEW VIEWS ASKED ON PUERTO RICANS: Ways to Assimilate them Here Suggested in Report Based on Island Study
New York Times; 07 Oct 1959: 42 Puerto Ricans In New York
New York Times; 11 Oct 1959: SM24 The Other Puerto Ricans: Headlines Have Obscured the Fight that Most Make Against Slum Living and Intolerance.
Carol Oja, West Side Story and the Music Man: Whiteness, Immigration, and Race in the U.S. in the late 1950s.
Good sources. Just remember that you will need to read chapters in the Briggs book that were not assigned in class for the paper. Also you will probably need to request the Whalen book from another CUNY library, which will probably take about a week to arrive.