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Underserved Suffering: A Psychospiritual Autobiography of Post-Colonial Faith from the Puerto Rican Diaspora

Underserved Suffering: A Psychospiritual Autobiography of Post-Colonial Faith from the Puerto Rican Diaspora

de Jesús, Gerardo

Paperback

General World History

ISBN13: 9798888101179
Publisher: Writers Republic Llc
Published: Sep 15 2023
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the Introduction

This story seeks to nuance moments in my history as the son of diasporic parents. As members of the many who migrated, my parents became an us to a them in a world where being different felt threatening. They experienced their own undeserved suffering, while holding on to the dream of American Exceptionalism. Puerto Rican-Americans arrived with prayers on their lips, bibles and rosaries in hand, and though it felt like an expulsion from paradise, our colonial faith sustained us. The God we knew over there was also here, in our new hiding place called Spanish Harlem, fondly called, el Barrio. The faith inherited from 5 centuries of colonialism has grown into our collective identity, and though its sacred stories speak to our realities, its legacy has also contributed to colonial aims.

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