Memoirs of Bernardo Vega

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In this article, the writer looks at the book 'Memoirs of Bernardo Vega', which is an autobiography with the subtitle 'A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York'. The writer notes that the time of the book is the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The writer discusses that while the book is called an autobiography, it has little about Vega's life in it and is instead a collection of observations the man made of life in his corner of New York City. The writer maintains that the book is timely today because it has so much information in it about the immigration system then in place, and that many of the issues facing the city then are similar to those raised about immigration today.

From the Paper:

"As depicted by Vega, these factories had a more complex social structure than an outsider might assume was true. The factory had a committee that raised funds for supplying the revolution in the Antilles. The factory had a press representative whose job was to pass out the workers newspapers from different parts of the country. The workers had lengthy conversations about the issues of the day, which for them centered primarily on revolution in Cuba. Vega was also taken with the life of one of the primary leaders of the revolution, Jose Marti, who raised a great deal of money for the revolution."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Vega, Bernardo. Memoirs of Bernardo Vega : A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York. Edited by Cesar Andreu Iglesias, translated by Juan Flores. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984.

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