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Title Latino urban ethnography and the work of Elena Padilla [electronic resource] / edited by Merida M. Rua.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

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Description 215 p. : ill.
Series Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. At the crossroads of urban ethnography and Puerto Rican Latinidad / Merida M. Rua 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 / Merida M. Rua ; "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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Padilla, Elena, 1923-
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rua, Merida M.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780252035760 (hardcover alk. paper)
0252035763 (hardcover alk. paper)
9780252077630 (pbk. alk. paper)
0252077636 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780252090264 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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