Making the impossible possible: the story of Puerto Rican studies in Brooklyn College

Discussion Guide

8/30/2022

1. What are some of the childhood experiences of the members of the Puerto Rican Alliance at Brooklyn College from the 1960s?

2. What was the experience like at Brooklyn College in the late 1960s for Puerto Rican students?

3. How did the alliance between Black and Puerto Rican students/student groups arise?

4. How did the work of the Black Panthers and the Brooklyn League of African American Collegians influence the Puerto Rican Alliance at Brooklyn College?

5. What were some of the 18 demands of the Puerto Rican Alliance?

6. What was the strategy to develop the Department of Puerto Rican Studies?7. What are some of the lessons shared by the activists, students, faculty, scholar-activists and others?