Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction. At the Crossroads of Urban Ethnography and Puerto Rican Latinidad 1 Mérida M. Rúa and Arlene Torres part 1 Puerto Rican Immigrants in New York and Chicago: A Study in Comparative Assimilation 23 Elena Padilla Prologue. Looking Back and Thinking Forward 25 Preface 31 I. Acculturation and Assimilation 33 II. Methods 47 III. Background of the Puerto Rican Migrants 50 IV. The Puerto Rican Migrants in New York City 67 V. The Puerto Rican Migrants in Chicago 76 VI. Conclusions 97 Bibliography 103 part 2 Reflections on Puerto Rican Immigrants in New York and Chicago 107 Puerto Rican “Spatio-Temporal Rhythms” of Housing and Work 109 Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores Footnotes of Social Justice: Elena Padilla and Chicago Puerto Rican Communities 128 Mérida M. Rúa “White” Puerto Rican Migrants, the Mexican Colony, “Americanization,” and Latino History 157 Nicholas De Genova Gendering “Latino Public Intellectuals”: Personal Narratives in the Ethnography of Elena Padilla 178 Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Contributors 207 Index 209 ...