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From<\/strong> Oregon Quarterly<\/strong><\/em>, Summer 2019
<\/strong>https:\/\/around.uoregon.edu\/oq\/puerto-rico-s-hurricane-maria-provides-ethnic-studies-lesson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alai Reyes-Santos \/ credit: Julia Wagner, University Communications<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When UO ethnic studies associate professor Ala\u00ed Reyes-Santos flipped on the late-night news on September 19, 2017, she saw something she\u2019d been dreading since childhood: a category four hurricane was barreling toward Puerto Rico from the southeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy mother always warned me that if a hurricane started in the southeast and curved up, it would wipe out the entire island,\u201d remembers Reyes-Santos, a native Puerto Rican who hails from a small town in the Cordillera Central mountain range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reyes-Santos stared in horror at the screen, transfixed by the arc of Maria\u2019s storm graphics spiraling from sea to the country\u2019s southeastern shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was nothing I could do from thousands of miles away, I felt powerless,\u201d she recalled recently from her small office on the outskirts of the UO campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the rest of this article, go to: https:\/\/around.uoregon.edu\/oq\/puerto-rico-s-hurricane-maria-provides-ethnic-studies-lesson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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