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Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods
Contributor(s): Rua, Merida M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0190257806     ISBN-13: 9780190257804
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $33.24  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies
Dewey: 305.86
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" L (1.05 lbs) 264 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Cultural Region - Upper Midwest
- Geographic Orientation - Illinois
- Locality - Chicago, Illinois
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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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. Rúa 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--Rúa 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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