Puerto Rican Arrival In New York

Studies the migration of large numbers of Puerto Ricans to New York in the early 1900's to study the social consequences including employment opportunities, housing, health, and adjustment.

A collection of first-hand reminiscences about the mid-20th-century migration from Puerto Rico to the US. The documentary importance of these testimonies is evident, particularly in their capturing of the actual voyage from Puerto Rico and arrival in New York, which dwell on the psychological and existential trauma of arrival and first impressions.

The selections in this book aim to describe the experiences of the early emigrants to the U.S., before the mass emigration of the late forties and fifties. These early arrival stories are first-hand testimonies and the predecessors of the Nuyorican literature that became part of the city's English and Hispanic literary movement in the past quarter-century. The book is published in both English and Spanish to reflect the bilingual-ness of the city and its inhabitants.

Stories about the experiences of Puerto Ricans in New York.

First published in 1983, this book remains the only full-length study documenting the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States. Expanded to bring it up to the present, Virginia Sánchez Korrol's work traces the growth of the early Puerto Rican settlements—"colonias"—into the unique, vibrant, and well-defined community of today.

The "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the “Puerto Rican problem” campaign and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that arose in reaction to the entry of Puerto Rican migrants to the city after 1945. The “problem” narrative influenced their incorporation in New York City and other regions of the United States where they settled. The anti-Puerto Rican campaign led to the formulation of public policies by the governments of Puerto Rico and New York City seeking to ease their incorporation in the city. Notions intrinsic to this narrative later entered American academia (like the “culture of poverty”) and American popular culture (e.g., West Side Story), which reproduced many of the stereotypes associated with Puerto Ricans at that time and shaped the way in which Puerto Ricans were studied and perceived by Americans.