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Poverty and discrimination: Puerto Ricans in the United States
Puerto Ricans : their history, culture, and society • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1980 • Pages: 375-416
By: United States. Commission on Civil Rights.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article deals with the various problems of adjustment faced by Puerto Ricans on the U.S. mainland. In summary form this study discusses Puerto Rican migrations to the U.S. mainland, demography, poverty, income, job opportunities (some obtained through job training programs sponsored by the federal government), language as a barrier to cultural adaptation, education, and employment, discrimination, and the crisis in education faced by Puerto Ricans and other minority groups on the U.S. mainland. This latter section contains information on school enrollment and dropout rates, language problems, school personnel and their influence over the success or failure of students, and Puerto Ricans and higher education.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- External migration
- Speech
- Income and demand
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Ethnic stratification
- Education system
- Liberal arts education
- Students
- 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.
- Organization Report
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by the United States Commission on Civil Rights
- This is an abridged and edited version of 'Puerto Ricans in the continental United States : an uncertain future,' published in Washington, D.C., 1976
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79028298
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans in the United States--Addresses, essays, lectures