Book
Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: a contribution to the history of the Puerto Rican community in New York
Monthly Review Press • New York • Published In 1984 • Pages:
By: Vega, Bernardo, Iglesias, César Andréu, Flores, Juan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Bernardo Vega's memoirs are a unique and sometimes humorous first-hand account of the author's life as an immigrant during the first half of the twentieth century. The memoirs also present data on the activities and concerns of the Puerto Rican community in the city during that period. In addition to the autobiographical information contained in this document this work also discusses the many difficulties faced by the immigrants in adjusting to New York City life, their growing involvement in political parties, labor organizations and socialist movements, and their cultural life. The author also includes his recollections of his uncle, providing a glimpse of New York City Puerto Rican life in the late nineteenth century, at the time of the Puerto Rican and Cuban wars of independence against Spain.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Behavior processes and personality
- Life history materials
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Tobacco industry
- Labor supply and employment
- Cities
- Form and rules of government
- External relations
- Pressure politics
- Political parties
- Elections
- Political movements
- Wartime adjustments
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1885-ca. 1950
- 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
- edited by César Andréu Iglesias ; translated by Juan Flores
- Translation of: Memorias de Bernardo Vega
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84009128
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vega, Bernardo, 1885- /Puerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.)--Biography/Puerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.)--History/New York (N.Y.)--Biography