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Carte Grounded Identidad Mirida M. Rza

Grounded Identidad

Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborboods

Autor: Mirida M. Rza
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Oxford University Press Inc
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Chicago is home to the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States, but schola...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Mirida M. Rza
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2015
Pagini
264
EAN
9780190257804
ISBN
0190257806
Enbook ID
09231365
Editura
Oxford University Press Inc
Greutate
364
Dimensiuni
156 x 237 x 20

Descriere completă

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 "white." But in Chicago, Puerto Ricans were considered "colored" 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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