<p><span style=color: rgba(32 28 32 1)>A Puerto Rican in New York makes invaluable reading for anyone who would gain a closer understanding of labor and immigrant history ethnic and racial relations and the centrality of Caribbean-U.S. affairs in the present-day workings of world imperialism. Jesus Colon throws open a window through which all can hear an intelligible and sympathetic Puerto Rican voice.</span></p>