Up from Puerto Rico

Elena Padilla

Published by Columbia University Press 1958

Up from Puerto Rico

Elena Padilla

https://doi.org/10.7312/padi94516

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About this book

Presents an attempt by an anthropologist to provide a new way of looking at the mass migration and settlement of some 760,000 Puerto Ricans to New York. Also provides a description of the changing culture of Puerto Ricans in New York City during the mid-1900s.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface. Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Where they live Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Puerto Ricans of Eastville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
The “we feeling” among Puerto Ricans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Living with others in the neighborhood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Family and kinship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Growing up in Eastville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Cliques and the social grapevine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Hispanos and the larger society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Health and life stress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Migrants: transients or settlers? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Copyright year: 1958
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 326

eBook

Published: March 2, 1958
ISBN: 9780231899062