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A Grounded Identidad - Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborboods (Paperback)
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A Grounded Identidad - Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborboods (Paperback)
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Chicago is home to the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans
in the United States, but scholarship on the city rarely accounts
for their presence. This book is part of an effort to include
Puerto Ricans in Chicago's history. Rua traces Puerto Ricans'
construction of identity in a narrative that begins in 1945, when a
small group of University of Puerto Rico graduates earned
scholarships to attend the University of Chicago and a private
employment agency recruited Puerto Rican domestics and foundry
workers. They arrived from an island colony where they had held
U.S. citizenship and where most thought of themselves as "white."
But in Chicago, Puerto Ricans were considered "colored" and their
citizenship was second class. They seemed to share few of the
rights other Chicagoans took for granted. In her analysis of the
following six decades-during which Chicago witnessed urban renewal,
loss of neighborhoods, emergence of multiracial coalitions, waves
of protest movements, and everyday commemorations of death and
life-Rua explores the ways in which Puerto Ricans have negotiated
their identity as Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and U.S. citizens.
Through a variety of sources, including oral history interviews,
ethnographic observation, archival research, and textual criticism,
A Grounded Identidad attempts to redress this oversight of
traditional scholarship on Chicago by presenting not only Puerto
Ricans' reconstitution from colonial subjects to second-class
citizens, but also by examining the implications of this political
reality on the ways in which Puerto Ricans have been racially
imagined and positioned in comparison to blacks, whites, and
Mexicans over time.
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