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Subject(s)

• Puerto Ricans—Cultural assimilation—New York (State)—New York [Browse]
• Puerto Ricans—Cultural assimilation—Illinois—Chicago [Browse]
• Puerto Ricans—New York (State)—New York—Social conditions [Browse]
• Puerto Ricans—Illinois—Chicago—Social conditions [Browse]
• New York (N.Y.)—Social conditions [Browse]
• Chicago (Ill.)—Social conditions [Browse]
• Padilla, Elena 1923- [Browse]

Related name

• Rúa, Mérida M. [Browse]

Series

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest [More in this series]

Summary note

This study builds upon the work of anthropologist Elena Padilla in an effort to examine constructions of space and identity among Latinos. It includes an annotated edition of Padilla's 1947 University of Chicago master's thesis, "Puerto Rican Immigrants in New York and Chicago: A Study in Comparative Assimilation," which broke with traditional urban ethnographies and examined racial identities and interethnic relations. Weighing the importance of gender and the interplay of labor, residence, and social networks, Padilla examined the integration of Puerto Rican migrants into the social and cultural life of the larger community where they settled. Also included are four comparative and interdisciplinary essays that foreground the significance of Padilla's early study about Latinos in Chicago. Contributors discuss the implications of her contributions to urban ethnographic traditions and to the development of Puerto Rican studies and Latina/o studies.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction. At the crossroads of urban ethnography and Puerto Rican Latinidad / Mérida M. Rúa and Arlene Torres
• Part I. Puerto Rican immigrants in New York and Chicago: a study in comparative assimilation / Elena Padilla. Prologue. Looking back and thinking forward ; Preface ; I. Acculturation and assimilation ; II. Methods ; III. Background of the Puerto Rican migrants ; IV. The Puerto Rican migrants in New York City ; V. The Puerto Rican Migrants in Chicago ; VI. Conclusions ; Bibliography
• Part 2. Reflections on Puerto Rican immigrants in New York and Chicago ; Puerto Rican "spatio-temporal rhythms" of housing and work / Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores ; Footnotes of social justice: Elena Padilla and Chicago Puerto Rican communities / Mérida M. Rúa ; "White" Puerto Rican migrants, the Mexican colony, "Americanization," and Latino history / Nicholas De Genova ; Gendering "Latino public intellectuals": Personal narratives in the ethnography of Elena Padilla / Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

ISBN

• 9780252035760 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 0252035763 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 9780252077630 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 0252077636 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2010043115

OCLC

601331411

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