Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video is from Unit Four of the Diasporican Educational Program.

This unit, Reinterpreting Puerto Rican Signs, is based on the idea that culture is symbolic behavior organized through signs. This unit demonstrates how the Puerto Rican Diasporas reworked important signs and popular discourses about racial democracy, migration, linguistic purity, and national symbols, making them more attuned to their diasporic experience.


What does the Diasporican Educational Program offer? A self-guided course teaching the social history of the Puerto Rican Diaspora throughout time across borders, language, identity, histories, and more.

Want to learn more? Head to diasporicaned.org and start learning today!
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