Monte Carmelo
Book 1988 LaRuffa, Anthony L.

Italian AmericansNorth America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a study of the ethnic enclave named Monte Carmelo, the 'Little Italy of the Bronx.' Monte Carmelo was settled in the 1890s by Italian-Americans moving out of Manhattan's Lower East Side and the city's other immigrant ghettos. At the same time...

San Cipriano; life in a Puerto Rican community
Book 1971 LaRuffa, Anthony L.

Puerto Ricans (Island)Middle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
Barrio San Cipriano, the focus of this study, is a political subdivision of the municipality of Santiago, located in the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico, approximately fifteen miles east of San Juan. This barrio, which is predominantly blac...