Bernardo Vega

Vega was born February 23, 1938, Santiago. Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York” is a biography of Bernardo Vega and his observations of the events concerning Puerto Ricans in New York City during the end of the 19th Century and the first half of the 20th Century. Though told in the first person, it is a compilation of his life, edited by César Andreu Iglesias. The book actually divulges very little about Vega. We’re not sure about the exact happenings in his married life (the two times that he married), about where his sister’s inclusion in the book comes from, and about how Vega came to help the mother who was forced to prostitute herself in order to feed her family. However, this book contributes significantly to the record of events about immigration issues in New York during the said time period.
 

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sip.uiuc.edu/rromero Memoirs

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