A grounded identidad
Subtitle: making new lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican neighborhoods
By: Mérida M. Rúa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780199760268
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Interviews; Ethnic neighborhoods; Ethnic relations; Biography; Puerto Ricans; Race relations; Social conditions; Social surveys
Description: This interdisciplinary study shows the varied ways Puerto Ricans came to understand their identities and rights within and beyond the city they made home.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Field Trips and Field Notes : Reflections on Memory and Neighborhoods; title: A Female Network of Domestics, Student Allies, and Social Workers; title: "Non-Resident Persons," "Nationalists," and the Puerto Ricans of Chicago; title: Neighborhood Obituaries, Resilient Communities; title: Overlapping Diasporas, Tangled Relations; title: Rites of Passage, Memory, and Personhood; title: Epilogue: Communities of Reciprocal Knowledge; title: Methodology and Sources; title: Appendix A: Consent Form; title: Appendix B: Forma de consentimiento; title: Appendix C: Interview Questions; title: Appendix D: Preguntas de la entrevista.