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Author Rúa, Mérida M., author

Title A grounded identidad : making new lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican neighborhoods / Mérida M. Rúa
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Prologue: Field Trips and Field Notes : Reflections on Memory and Neighborhoods -- A Female Network of Domestics, Student Allies, and Social Workers -- "Non-Resident Persons," "Nationalists," and the Puerto Ricans of Chicago -- Neighborhood Obituaries, Resilient Communities -- Overlapping Diasporas, Tangled Relations -- Rites of Passage, Memory, and Personhood -- Epilogue: Communities of Reciprocal Knowledge -- Methodology and Sources -- Appendix A: Consent Form -- Appendix B: Forma de consentimiento -- Appendix C: Interview Questions -- Appendix D: Preguntas de la entrevista
Summary This interdisciplinary study shows the varied ways Puerto Ricans came to understand their identities and rights within and beyond the city they made home
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Puerto Ricans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions
Puerto Ricans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Ethnic identity
Puerto Ricans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago
Social surveys -- Illinois -- Chicago
Interviews -- Illinois -- Chicago
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic neighborhoods
Ethnic relations
Interviews
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans -- Ethnic identity
Puerto Ricans -- Social conditions
Race relations
Social conditions
Social surveys
SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography
Chicago (Ill.) -- Ethnic relations
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions
Subject Illinois -- Chicago
Genre/Form interviews.
Biographies
Interviews
Biographies.
Interviews.
Biographies.
Interviews.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199950256
0199950253
9780199908127
0199908125
1280699086
9781280699085