Book
Up from Puerto Rico
Columbia University Press • New 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.
- 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.)