essay
Puerto Rican politics in New York City: the post-World War II period
Puerto Rican politics in urban America • (107) • Published In 1984 • Pages: 43-59
By: Baver, Sherrie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study presents an overview of politics in the New York City Puerto Rican community from the 1950s to the 1970s. The focus of this work is on the key Puerto Rican political figures of the time, their leadership styles, and their specific roles in New York City politics. Baver presents a brief sketch of each of these prominent political actors and the styles they represent. Herman Badillo, for example, one of the most prominent of the individuals discussed in this document, represents the moderate politician; Ramon Velez, a typical example of the political machine boss; while Gilberto Gerena Valentin represents an idealistic, militant figure. A discussion of the diversity of their individual leadership styles offers not only a deep insight into their individual personalities, but also provides data on their political organization, their followers, and the city-wide political arena (p. 43).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Status, role, and prestige
- Cities
- Political parties
- Elections
- Political movements
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Political Scientist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Sherrie Baver
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83010739
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government