Book
Up from Puerto Rico
Columbia University Press • New York • Published In 1958 • Pages:
By: Padilla, Elena.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book presents a description of the life-ways and changing cultural patterns of Puerto Ricans in a New York City slum, called 'Eastville' (a pseudonym), in the mid 1950s. This work describes what it was like growing up under the poverty conditions faced by immigrants in the city. The account includes the immigrants' experiences in coming to New York, as well as the effects of change on the family and children, health, friends, traditions, and values, as they adjusted to city life. Other aspects of Puerto Rican ethnography discussed in this document are family and kinship relations, ethnicity, relationships with other ethnic groups in the community, cliques and gangs, the drug abuse problem, and problems of assimilation into the larger society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural identity and pride
- Speech
- Settlement patterns
- Labor supply and employment
- Social relationships and groups
- Cliques
- Household
- Alcoholism and drug addiction
- Theory of disease
- Medical therapy
- Medical care
- Ethnosociology
- Child care
- Childhood activities
- Status of children
- Socialization
- Adolescent activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Jan. 1954-Jul. 1957 [p. viii]
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1954-1957
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Eastville', New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Elena Padilla
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 58007171
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.)