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Webography

National Endowment for the Arts 2003 Heritage Award Winners http://www.nea.gov/honors/heritage/Heritage03/Egipciaco.html
In 1982 the National Endowment for the Arts established the NEA National Heritage Awards as a way of honoring American folk artists for their contributions to our national cultural mosaic. Modelled after the Japanese "National Living Treasures" concept, the idea began with Bess Lomax Hawes, then director of the Folk Arts Program. Since its inception, over 200 artists have received the Heritage Award. As a group, these folk and traditional artists reflect the diverse heritage and cultural traditions that transcend their beginnings to become part of our national character. Americans all, they bring age-old customs, crafts and ways of living to the flux of American life, a pluralism that makes us strong and defines us, in the words of Walt Whitman, as "not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations."

Nuyorican Poet's Cafe http://www.nuyorican.org/
Founded circa 1973 in Manhattan's East Village, the Cafe's purpose has always been to provide a stage for the artists traditionally under-represented in the mainstream media and culture; promoting their work while building an audience and providing an ongoing support system for them as they grow...

Puerto Rican Tourism Board
Information on traditional art: http://welcome.topuertorico.org/culture/artsc.shtml
Information on Moca http://welcome.topuertorico.org/city/moca.shtml

Bibliography

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Harang, Marni. 1994. "The Flowers of Flanders: Seventeenth-Century Flemish Bobbin Tape Lace." Piecework. May-June, 60-63.

History Task Force, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños. 1979. Labor Migration Under Capitalism: The Puerto Rican Experience. Monthly Review Press: New York.

Lauriks, Wim. "The Birthplace of Lace Making." International Lace Magazine. #49, 1999.

Menkart, Deborah and Cathy A. Sunshine. 1990. Caribbean Connections: Puerto Rico. Network of Educators in the Americas: Washington DC.

Navarro, Mireya. 2000 "Puerto Rican Presence Wanes in New York," New York Times, February 28th

O'Meara, Denise. 1983. "Individuals and History: Behind Lace Curtains." An Gael. February, 29-35.

Ortíz, Altagracia. 1996. "En la aguja y el pedal eché la hiel": Puerto Rican Women in
the Garment Industry of New York City, 1920-1980," pp. 55-81. In Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor. Altagracia Ortíz (ed.). Temple University Press: Philadelphia, pp. 58.

Palliser, Bury. History of Lace, p.90-91. Dover Publishers: New York. 1984.

Rivera Arbolay. 1999. Pueblos de Nuestro Puerto Rico. Publicaciones Puertorriqueños
Editores: Hato Rey.

Rodríguez, Clara E. 1994 "Puerto Ricans and the Political Economy of New York." p.118-
123. In From Different Shores: Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity. Ronald Takaki (ed.).
Oxford University Press: New York.

Sánchez Korrol, Virginia E. 1983 From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans
in New York City. University of California Press: Berkeley

Sánchez Korrol, Virginia. 1996. "Survival of Puerto Rican Women in York Before World War II,"pp. 55-67. In Historical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Survival in the United States. Clara Rodríguez and Virginia Sánchez Korrol (eds.). Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton.

Santiago, Carlos. 1994 "The Changing Role of Migration in Puerto Rican Economic Development: Perspectives from the past and a Look to the Future," p. 171-183. In The Commuter Nation: Perspectives on Puerto Rican Migration. Carlos Antonio Torre, Hugo Rodríguez-Vecchini, William Burgos (eds.). Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico: Rio Piedras

Trigo Tió, Enrique. 2001. Encajar en el mundo: El Telón del Teatro Raul Juliá del Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (Weaving One's Way into the World: The Curtain of the Raul Juliá Theater at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico) video. 2001. Luna Films, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Villar Roces, Mario. La Gran Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico: Municipios. Vicente Baez, editor.
Volumen 13. Puerto Rico en la Mano y La Gran Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico: San Juan.