Latino urban ethnography and the work of Elena Padilla [electronic resource] / edited by M�erida M. R�ua. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010. - 215 p. : ill. - Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. At the crossroads of urban ethnography and Puerto Rican Latinidad / M�erida M. R�ua and Arlene Torres -- Part I. Puerto Rican immigrants in New York and Chicago: a study in comparative assimilation / Elena Padilla. Prologue. Looking back and thinking forward ; Preface ; I. Acculturation and assimilation ; II. Methods ; III. Background of the Puerto Rican migrants ; IV. The Puerto Rican migrants in New York City ; V. The Puerto Rican Migrants in Chicago ; VI. Conclusions ; Bibliography -- Part 2. Reflections on Puerto Rican immigrants in New York and Chicago ; Puerto Rican "spatio-temporal rhythms" of housing and work / Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores ; Footnotes of social justice: Elena Padilla and Chicago Puerto Rican communities / M�erida M. R�ua ; "White" Puerto Rican migrants, the Mexican colony, "Americanization," and Latino history / Nicholas De Genova ; Gendering "Latino public intellectuals": Personal narratives in the ethnography of Elena Padilla / Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Padilla, Elena, 1923-


Puerto Ricans--Cultural assimilation--New York (State)--New York.
Puerto Ricans--Cultural assimilation--Illinois--Chicago.
Puerto Ricans--Social conditions.--New York (State)--New York
Puerto Ricans--Social conditions.--Illinois--Chicago


New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.


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