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Anastasia's storyarticle 1988 • Juarbe, Ana
Puerto Ricans (Mainland) • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is the life history of the author's mother. The mother tells about her life growing up in Puerto Rico centered on the hard work in the coffee fields. The reader gets a good sense of why a person would leave their home for an uncertain but hopefu...Negotiating gender, work, and welfarebook chapter 1996 • Torruellas, Rosa M. et al.
Puerto Ricans (Mainland) • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This article is based on the life histories of sixteen Puerto Rican women whom the authors met in an adult literacy program. Although these women have been on welfare, they are not the mythical 'welfare moms' disparaged in the news media. Rather they...