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Tables of Contents for A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Preface
9
2
A Voice Through the Window
11
3
My First Literary Venture
14
1
My First Strike
15
2
The Way to Learn
17
5
Stowaway
22
3
Easy Job, Good Wages
25
3
Two Men With But One Pair of Pants
28
2
On the Docks It Was Cold
30
6
I Heard a Man Crying
36
3
Kipling and I
39
4
How To Rent an Apartment When You Don't Have Any Money
43
3
The Day My Father Got Lost
46
3
Hiawatha Into Spanish
49
3
Name in Latin
52
5
A Hero In the Junk Truck
57
3
Maceo
60
3
The Story of Ana Roque
63
3
Pisagua
66
3
Rivera Back in Mexico
69
4
Trujillo's Fair of Blood
73
3
Something To Read
76
2
The Origin of Latin American Dances (according to the Madison Avenue Boys
78
3
Hollywood Rewrites History
81
4
Chinese Opera in Latin America
85
2
Jose
87
9
Sarah
96
3
Marcelino
99
3
Carmencita
102
9
The Lady Who Lived Near the Statue of a Man on a Horse
111
4
Little Things Are Big
115
3
The Mother, the Daughter, Myself and All of Us
118
1
Greetings From Washington
119
7
Because He Spoke in Spanish
126
3
Youth: The Palisades As a Backdrop
129
3
And Fuchik Looked On Confident
132
3
Wanted-A Statue
135
3
The Library Looks at the Puerto Ricans
138
3
On Singing In the Shower
141
6
How To Know the Puerto Ricans
147
3
Soap Box in the Swamps
150
5
My Private Hall of Fame
155
4
Books That Never Get Returned
159
3
Reading In the Bathtub
162
4
What Shall I Write About?
166
2
What D'Ya Read?
168
2
The Visitor
170
3
Red Roses for Me
173
3
It Happened One Winter's Night
176
3
``I Made It''-``I Sold It''-``I Bought It''
179
3
Grandma, Please Don't Come!
182
3
She Actually Pinched Me!
185
2
Looking Just a Little forward
187
4
For the Stay-at-Homes
191
3
If Instead of a Professor
194
3
A Puerto Rican In New York
197