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EBOOK Grounded Identidad:Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199908127
EAN: 9ABC4B23EB
Format: 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0
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Stron: 256
Data wydania: 2012
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Chicago is home to the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United        States, but scholarship on the city rarely accounts for their presence. This book is        part of an effort to include Puerto Ricans in Chicago's history. Rua traces Puerto        Ricans' construction of identity in a narrative that begins in 1945, when a small        group of University of Puerto Rico graduates earned scholarships to attend the        University of Chicago and a private employment agency recruited Puerto Rican        domestics and foundry workers. They arrived from an island colony where they had        held U.S. citizenship and where most thought of themselves as "e;white."e; But in        Chicago, Puerto Ricans were considered "e;colored"e; and their citizenship was second        class. They seemed to share few of the rights other Chicagoans took for granted. In        her analysis of the following six decades--during which Chicago witnessed urban        renewal, loss of neighborhoods, emergence of multiracial coalitions, waves of        protest movements, and everyday commemorations of death and life--Rua explores the        ways in which Puerto Ricans have negotiated their identity as Puerto Ricans,        Latinos, and U.S. citizens.Through a variety of sources, including oral history        interviews, ethnographic observation, archival research, and textual criticism, A        Grounded Identidad attempts to redress this oversight of traditional scholarship on        Chicago by presenting not only Puerto Ricans' reconstitution from colonial subjects        to second-class citizens, but also by examining the implications of this political        reality on the ways in which Puerto Ricans have been racially imagined and        positioned in comparison to blacks, whites, and Mexicans over time.

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