Blanca Vázquez,
Bio:
Blanca I Vázquez is an alumna of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and was the founding editor of CENTRO, the academic journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (1987-1997). She taught in Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, where she is also co-director of the James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism, and received the Isendorf Presidential Award for Excellence in Part-Time Teaching.
Little space has been offered to the voices of the real Puerto Rican migrants West Side Story was attempting to characterize. Here, Blanca Vázquez talks about the effects of this decades-old production.















