Book

Up from Puerto Rico

Columbia University PressNew York • Published In 1958 • Pages:

By: Padilla, Elena.

Abstract
This book presents a description of the life-ways and changing cultural patterns of Puerto Ricans in a New York City slum, called 'Eastville' (a pseudonym), in the mid 1950s. This work describes what it was like growing up under the poverty conditions faced by immigrants in the city. The account includes the immigrants' experiences in coming to New York, as well as the effects of change on the family and children, health, friends, traditions, and values, as they adjusted to city life. Other aspects of Puerto Rican ethnography discussed in this document are family and kinship relations, ethnicity, relationships with other ethnic groups in the community, cliques and gangs, the drug abuse problem, and problems of assimilation into the larger society.
Subjects
Life history materials
External migration
Acculturation and culture contact
Sociocultural trends
Cultural identity and pride
Speech
Settlement patterns
Labor supply and employment
Social relationships and groups
Cliques
Household
Alcoholism and drug addiction
Theory of disease
Medical therapy
Medical care
Ethnosociology
Child care
Childhood activities
Status of children
Socialization
Adolescent activities
culture
Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
HRAF PubDate
2002
Region
North America
Sub Region
Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Types
Ethnologist
Indigenous Person
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
John Beierle ; 1992
Field Date
Jan. 1954-Jul. 1957 [p. viii]
Coverage Date
1954-1957
Coverage Place
'Eastville', New York, N.Y., United States
Notes
by Elena Padilla
LCCN
58007171
LCSH
Puerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.)