|Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute||Home| The Hispanic
population in New Haven primarily have or have had ancestors
migrate from Puerto Rico. All too often these students have
little or no knowledge of their former country’s history and
culture, or the reasons why so many have chosen to make the
United States their home. To better facilitate the student’s
awareness of Puerto Rico’s uniqueness, the unit includes a
comparative study of Puerto Rico and Cuba and its relation to
the rest of the Caribbean. Puerto Rico and Cuba have rich and
colorful personalities. Their histories, once intertwined, have
taken distinctly different paths. To better understand these
transformations and diverse identities it is necessary to
analyze the political, historic, economic, social, and cultural
events. Needless to say, it would be impossible to incorporate
every detailed incident in this unit. Instead, the unit will
present an overall survey of each history from Spanish
colonization, with special emphasis on relevant historica