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EL HILO QUE NOS UNE/the thread that binds us: becoming a Puerto Rican woman
oral history review • 16 (2) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 29-40
By: Alvarez, Celia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article gives voice to the hardships of Puerto Rican women who grew up with three strikes against them: being women in a strict patriarchal culture, being Puerto Rican in a prejudicial Anglo-American society, and being poor in an affluent society. Alvarez also writes about her own experience of prejudice attending parochial schools outside of her neighborhood, high schools in wealthier and whiter neighborhoods, and even graduate school where her professors admonished her for her research interest in Puerto Rican women. Alvarez's identifies her own struggles with those of her informants and argues that acknowledging this commonalty is an important step in the process of liberation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- External migration
- Gender status
- Ethnic stratification
- Classes
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- 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
- Ian Skoggard;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
- 1920-1970
- 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
- Celia Alvarez
- 'Stories to live by : continuity and change in three generations of Puerto Rican women'
- For bibliographical references see document number 60:Vazquez Erazo (p. 44-46)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644497
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--United States