The "Puerto Rican problem" in postwar New York City

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Title
"The "Puerto Rican problem" in postwar New York City"
Statement of Responsibility
Edgardo Meléndez
Publisher
  • Rutgers University Press
Publication Year
  • c2023
Book size
23 cm
Series Name / No
  • : pbk

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Notes

Summary: "The 'Puerto-Rican Problem' in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the 'Puerto Rican problem' movement and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that arose in reaction to the entry of Puerto Rican migrants to the city after 1945. The "problem" narrative influenced their incorporation in New York City and other regions of the United States where they settled. The anti-Puerto Rican campaign led to the formulation of public policies by the governments of Puerto Rico and New York City seeking to ease their incorporation in the city. Notions intrinsic to this narrative later entered American academia (like the "culture of poverty") and American popular culture (e.g., West Side Story), which reproduced many of the stereotypes associated with Puerto Ricans at that time and shaped the way in which Puerto Ricans were studied and perceived by Americans"

Bibliography: p. 231-238

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