Melting Snow

2021•8m•Documentary

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico.

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Pedro Pietri

Self (archive audio) (uncredited)

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