essay
The racialization of Puerto Rican identity in the United States
Ethnicity, race and nationality in the Caribbean • San Juan, P. R. • Published In 1997 • Pages: 233-273
By: Rodríguez, Víctor M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Rodríguez discusses Puerto Rican identity and ethnicity in history, both in Puerto Rico and in the United States. He argues that the identity of Puerto Ricans living in Puerto Rico is based on culture. When the United States took over Puerto Rico and later in the post World War II period when immigrants arrived to the United States, Puerto Ricans were subjected to a bi-polar racial classification system that redefined their identity in terms of race and divided Puerto Ricans based on their color.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnic stratification
- 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.
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Bieirle ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1949-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Víctor M. Rodríguez
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96079726
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--United States