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This memoir offers a fragmentary but vivid account of the early life and career of Manuel Cabranes, whom the New York Times described as ""the ranking Puerto Rican official in New York City for nearly two decades."" Born in 1904 in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, Manuel Cabranes was among the first generation of Puerto Ricans educated under the U.S. flag. His recollections follow the path from a rural childhood in Puerto Rico, to studies at Fordham during the Great Depression while living and working at a settlement house in East Harlem, and onward to a pioneering career in social work and civic leadership in both Puerto Rico and New York. During his exceptional five decades in public service, Cabranes played a unique role as a bridge between island and mainland communities and bore witness to the emergence of modern Puerto Rican identity in the twentieth century.

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Manuel Cabranes (1904-1984) was a pioneering educator, social worker, and public official whose career bridged Puerto Rico and New York City. From the beginning of his career as a rural schoolteacher, Cabranes rose to become Puerto Rico's first professionally trained social worker and later its principal representative in New York City. During his exceptional career, he was a key advocate for the Puerto Rican diaspora during the Great Puerto Rican Migration to New York of the mid-twentieth century. Judge José A. Cabranes has served as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1994. At the time of his appointment, he was Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, a court to which he was appointed in 1979. In 2023, Judge Cabranes received the Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award, the Federal Judiciary's highest honor.He is the author of Citizenship and the American Empire (Yale University Press, 1979) and co-author (with Kate Stith) of Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts (University of Chicago Press, 1998).

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