Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor (Puerto Rican Studies)

Telling Their Stories: Puerto Rican Wome

📁 Telling Their Stories: Puerto Rican Women And Abortion

✍ Jean Peterman 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 Avalon Publishing 🌐 English

Abortion and the right of a woman to control her fertility cross boundaries of race, ethnicity, and social class. In this revealing and in-depth study, Jean P. Peterman focuses on a group of Puerto Rican women in Chicago whose decisions about abortion highlight the contradiction between the sexually

Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Pu

📁 Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i

✍ JoAnna Poblete 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 University of Illinois Press 🌐 English

In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S. jurisdiction. As a result, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans could seek jobs in the United States and its te

The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Cultural Stud

📁 The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Cultural Studies)

✍ Patricia Gherovici 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Other Press 🌐 English

80 Puerto Rican Families in New York Cit

📁 80 Puerto Rican Families in New York City: Health and Disease Studied in Context

✍ Beatrice Bishop Berle 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

<p>Dr. Berele, an early female pioneer in the field of medicine, examines the medical condition of Puerto Rican families in New York City during the 50's. Her study addressed the question of why specific geographic or ethnic groups show higher or lower incidences of disease. The author discusses the

80 Puerto Rican Families in New York Cit

📁 80 Puerto Rican Families in New York City: Health and Disease Studied in Context

✍ Beatrice Bishop Berle 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

<p>Dr. Berele, an early female pioneer in the field of medicine, examines the medical condition of Puerto Rican families in New York City during the 50's. Her study addressed the question of why specific geographic or ethnic groups show higher or lower incidences of disease. The author discusses the

The Puerto Rican Migrant in New York Cit

📁 The Puerto Rican Migrant in New York City

✍ Lawrence R. Chenault 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

<p>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.</p>