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Un milagro de Loisaida: alternative technology and grassroots efforts for neighborhood reconstruction on New York's Lower East Side
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Chodorkoff, Daniel Elliot.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation examines the Puerto Rican community of Loisaida, Manhattan's Lower East Side. The focus of the work is on three grass roots organizations and their efforts at neighborhood reconstruction using alternative technologies (i.e., technologies based on utilizing renewable energy sources), and de-centralist forms of community organization (p. v). Two of these organizations are discussed briefly in the text -- the 11th Street Movement, and C.U.A.N.D.O (Cultural Understanding and Neighborhood Development Organization), but the major emphasis is on Charas, an environmental and cultural group involved in neighborhood education and reconstruction. The author analyzes this group as a component of a social movement, describing its organizational structure, ideological outlook, and its economic forms and programs within the context of the emerging New York Puerto Rican culture of Loisaida. The final section of this study presents a general theoretical discussion of the utopian tradition and how it relates to the environmental movements on the Lower East Side.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Research methods
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- History
- Economic planning and development
- Cultural identity and pride
- Environmental quality
- Settlement patterns
- Housing
- Commercial facilities
- Parks
- Urban and rural life
- Sodalities
- Community structure
- Poverty
- Ethnosociology
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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 ;
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1979 (p. 10)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1970-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lower East Side, Manhattan; New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Daniel Elliot Chodorkoff
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- New School for Social Research, 1980
- UM AAC8028991
- The functional aspects of the environmental movements described here have been indexed for Environmental Quality (318), with Sodalities (575) added for discussions of organizational structure.Data on these movements as a youth oriented activity were indexed for Adolescent Activities (883).
- Bibliography: p. 251-259
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.)