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Postscript: Stories to live by : continuity and change in three generations of Puerto Rican women
oral history review • 16 (2) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 1-46
By: Vazquez Erazo, Blanca.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the postscript for the series of articles based on the life histories of NewYork City's Puerto Rican women garment workers (documents nos. 37, 57-59). We learn that these life histories were originally part of a slide show and radio documentary. Vasquez relates how the material was processed. The authors coded the interviews according to general themes and then focussed on common experiences, such as community struggles, raising children, and the socialization of women. In the articles the authors went a step further and placed the life histories in the histories of Puerto Rican immigration and New York's economy. Vasquez addresses the question of how representative the sample was of Puerto Rican immigrant women, as most of the women were low-level union officials. In spite of their relative success, their lives were one of struggle and overcoming adversity, which is the true measure of success according to Vasquez. This document includes the references for documents nos. 37 and 57-59.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Observation in research
- Interviewing in research
- 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
- 1920-1990
- 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
- Blanca Vazquez Erazo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-46) for document numbers 37: Benmayor; 57:Juarbe; 58:Vazquez Erazo; 59:Alvarez
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644497
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--United States