In the U.S. the Black Power movement raised the bar of black resistance and significantly influenced the symbolism, rhetoric, and tactics of radical activism of the Puerto Rican activists in the late 1960s. Black Power advocates among gangs, students, and others represented a model of ...
Puerto Ricans in New York City have built casitas, copies of the traditional rural wooden houses painted in vibrant colors and decorated with Puerto Rican objects. The jíbaro, the highland rural folk, has become a controversial symbol because jíbaros are depicted as descendants of white Spanish...
Discusses the roles of Puerto Rican girls in gangs from the perspectives of the girls and within the feminist, developmental, cultural and sociopolitical perspectives in Massachusetts. Use of qualitative, phenomenological and feminist approach; Stories of the girls; Perceptions of social and contextual ...
Puerto RicangangsHIV riskThis study examines factors related to injection and noninjection drug use during the last incarceration among injection drug users in East Harlem, New York (n = 555), and Bayam贸n, Puerto Rico (n = 241). Injecting drugs during the last incarceration episode was ...
(1966) Rasse und ethnische Zugerhorigkeit in einer Periode wirtschaftlichen Ubergangs: die Abnahme der Zahl von Puertoricanerinnen der Arbeiterschaft der Stadt New York im Zeitraum 1960-80, Reg. Studies 30, 151-166. Diese Untersuchung zeigt, wie bestimmte Rassen und ethnische Gruppen ...