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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813023103321

Titolo

Latino urban ethnography and the work of Elena Padilla [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mérida M. Rúa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-01764-4

9786613017642

0-252-09026-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

Altri autori (Persone)

RúaMérida M

Disciplina

305.868/7295

Soggetti

Puerto Ricans - Cultural assimilation - New York (State) - New York

Puerto Ricans - Cultural assimilation - Illinois - Chicago

Puerto Ricans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions

Puerto Ricans - Illinois - Chicago - Social conditions

New York (N.Y.) Social conditions

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.