“I Have Not Come Here Alone, I Carry My People in My Bones:” Histories of Puerto Rican Community Resistance This project is an interdisciplinary analysis of radical care and its employment as a strategy for community resistance. It explores the scholarship of radical care abstractly, and then places it within a context of Puerto Rican resistance during the 1960s and 70s in New York as led by the Young Lords Party, an organization focused on sustaining Puerto Rican diaspora communities in the US through direct action, as well during the last four years, through the grassroots organizing efforts for disaster relief on the island, after Hurricane Maria in 2017. By exploring the ways in which institutional mechanisms of the United States’ imperial project in Puerto Rico have historically and contemporarily created and profited from disparities in care for Puerto Rican diaspora and island populations, this project explores how community care addresses these disparities through immediate material solutions and employment of the radical imaginary as a way to envision a world where care is an innate ethic, not an act of resistance. Rodriguez, Adriana creator Rodriguez, Daniel thesis advisor Shibusawa, Naoko reader Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies sponsor 2021 text born digital English Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021 Latin American and Caribbean Studies theses Young Lords Party Puerto Rico Capitalism Hurricane Maria (2017) Mutual Aid In Copyright Collection is open for research. 10.26300/t24w-v775