Latino urban ethnography and the work of Elena Padilla [electronic resource] /
edited by Mérida M. Rúa.
- 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 / Mérida M. Rúa 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 / Mérida M. Rúa ; "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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary 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.