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	People's Weekly World Newspaper Online - Low-income renters in crisis
		While the worst housing problems are to be found in the African-American community, representatives of Mexican-American, Chinese, Puerto Rican and American Indian communities also talked about their situations in detail.
		Two speakers in particular, African-American journalist Sisi Donald Mosby and Dr. Jose Lopez, director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, talked about how city government policy, especially since World War II, has deliberately manipulated housing issues for both economic and political ends.
		Neris Ramos from the Metropolitan Tenants’ Organization set the stage by announcing that the Coalition has given Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley a grade of “F” for his housing policies, which entail both the destruction of existing affordable housing and encouragement of speculative development activities, which drive up the cost of housing.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/944 (482 words)

	Cultural Diversity: Eating in America, Puerto Rican, HYG-5257-95
		This fact sheet on the Puerto Rican culture is one of a series of nine developed to address cultural diversity in American eating.
		Looker, A., Loria, C.M., Carroll, M.D., McDowell, M.A., Johnson, C.L. Calcium intakes of Mexican American, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Non-Hispanic Whites and Non-Hispanic Blacks in the United States.
		Puerto Ricans are American citizens and can legally enter and leave the mainland.
	ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/5000/5257.html (1058 words)

	Immigration to America
		American Immigration - This page list reasons for immigration, who the immigrants were, peaks/waves of immigration, methods of transportation to America, and lots of other information organized by time periods of American history.
		Czechosolvakian Immigration - Immigration of Czechosolvakian people to the American Midwest is an essay of why and where these people settled.
		Immigration: The Living Mosaic of People, Culture, and Hope - Project that introduces the American immigration of the English, Germans, Italians, Irish, Africans, Japanese, Chinese, and Jewish peoples.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listimmigratli.html (823 words)

	Boricuas
		Puerto Ricans were now working and living alongside many other citizens of different ethnicities and were treated much like other immigrants; people assumed that they would eventually "fit in" by abandoning their culture and embracing American culture.
		Even with this hurdle cleared today, however, American-born Puerto Ricans face racism and inequality as they define what it means to be a Puerto Rican in the United States.
		Hartford citizens also made no shortage of comments on how the Puerto Rican looked and acted different from the American.
	www.trincoll.edu /~lvangsne/boricuas.htm (823 words)

	Cultural Diversity: Eating in America, Puerto Rican, HYG-5257-95
		This fact sheet on the Puerto Rican culture is one of a series of nine developed to address cultural diversity in American eating.
		Looker, A., Loria, C.M., Carroll, M.D., McDowell, M.A., Johnson, C.L. Calcium intakes of Mexican American, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Non-Hispanic Whites and Non-Hispanic Blacks in the United States.
		Puerto Ricans are American citizens and can legally enter and leave the mainland.
	ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/5000/5257.html (1058 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Carlos Pesquera: Ardent Statehood Advocate; Man Of Law & Order
		In the middle of protests and insults, Pesquera entered the building pushing his way through an emotional crowd Thursday with an American flag in hand and stood it next to a Puerto Rican flag, ending a politically-charged protest that left two injured.
		The protesters said they had been demanding for days that the office put up an American flag next to its Puerto Rican flag, which is a local state department regulation.
		Puerto Rico's representative for women's affairs, Maria Dolores Fernos, said she thinks there was nothing illegal about displaying only the Puerto Rican flag in her office.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2002/vol6n26/PesqArdStatehood-en.shtml (1363 words)

	Puerto Rican - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions
		Puerto Ricans are mostly descendants of Spaniards who colonized the island, taino's: a native american tribe (the indigenous peole of the island and the rest of the america's) and of Africans who were brought as slaves.
		Regardless of skin color or ethnic origin, Puerto Ricans are extremely proud of their heritage, culture and language,of their nationality separately from their status as American citizens.
		A Puerto Rican is anyone who was born on the island of Puerto Rico.
	www.questionz.net /List_of_cancer_patients/Puerto_Rican.html (1363 words)

	PR Independence FAQ
		Puerto Rico was the "Poorhouse of the Caribbean" and similar to other Latin American countries between 1900 and 1950, all the while under American rule.
		To insist that Puerto Rico without North American handouts will be exactly like every other Hispanic country is to promote the adage that everything "South of the border" is inherently the same...
		Puerto Rican citizenship would become a reality with at least the same rights and privileges as those currently afforded, and would be automatically extended to all those who are born on the island, or reside for a period of X years in Puerto Rico, (the exact number decided later).
	www.geocities.com /elgranmoncho2002/engver.html (4412 words)

	Lopez-Adorno
		López Adorno's areas of expertise are: Latin American literature (poetry, in particular); Puerto Rican literature (from colonial times to the present); literary criticism and theory (including postmodern theory); and Latino literature in the U.S. As a poet he is considered a key voice within the generation of Latin American poets born after 1950.
		He is now a Professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies of Hunter College, where he has been since 1987.
		At Hunter he has created the course, Latino Literature (focusing on the literary evolution of Latino/a writing across the U.S.) and has re-structured the courses on Puerto Rican Literature.
	www.hunter.cuny.edu /blpr/lopez.html (4412 words)

	Beach Boy
		The mother’s parents were African-American and European-American, the father’s, Chinese and Puerto Rican, that being mostly Spanish with some Native American thrown in.
		Each of his grandparents was of a different race, or ethnicity as folks sometimes say.
		Grandfather had been stationed in the Philippines at the end of World War II.
	kevinclain.00books.com /beachboy.html (647 words)

	Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both Puerto Rico and Hawaii were territories of the United States however, the passage of the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917, granted American citizenship to the Puerto Rican resident in Puerto Rico and excluded those who resided in Hawaii.
		The Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaii can be traced to the year 1899, when Puerto Rico's sugar industry was devasted by two hurricanes.
		Records show that in 1902 34 plantations had 1,773 Puerto Ricans on their payrolls, 1,734 worked as field hands and another 39 were clerks or overseers (foremens).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puerto_Rican_immigration_to_Hawaii (1003 words)

	30012858
		He pointed out, for example, that the Americans hired native Puerto Ricans, who rendered the army efficient and valuable service as mounted scouts.
		This book is a collection of letters written home by George King, an American soldier who served in the Puerto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American War.
		Letters of a volunteer in the Spanish-American war [by] George G. King.
	hdl.loc.gov /loc.gdc/lhbpr.12858 (1003 words)

	Puerto Rico Maps - Weather - History - Politics - Travel - Economy - Geography
		Puerto Rico has its own Olympic team and has international representation in many events including the Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, Pan-American Games, and Central American Games.
		Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States in the Spanish-American War on July 25, 1898 with a landing at Gu�nica Bay.
		During that period, the colonial regime appointed the first Puerto Rican governor, Jes�s T. Pi�ero, until 1948 when the people elected Luis Mu�oz Mar�n, the first elected governor.
	puerto-rico.asinah.net (1003 words)

	issue 09 :: september :: let's get physical
		Their heritages include everything from Chinese to Korean to Filipino, and that is how The White American Sport has become The Asian American Sportand we don't feel so bad just calling it The American Sport anymore.
		1999 was supposed to be a milestone year in NBA history - Wang Zhizhi, 7'1" Chinese Basketball Association superstar champion, was drafted by the Denver Nuggets to be the first Asian player in the NBA.
		So far this season, Mark has scored three game-winning goals, while Mark and Brian have one game-winning assist to each of their names.
	www.ialink.tv /e_news/9-01-05/whoswho.php (1795 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Transcultural Child Development: Psychological Assessment and Treatment
		CAPs: African American, Puerto Rican, Chinese American, Los Angeles, Korean American (more)
		Is your young Puerto Rican patient ADD, or are his aggressiveness and lack of attention a response to the chaotic, unsupervised, dangerous atmosphere at his school?
		Is the Asian child you're assessing suffering from introversion and lack of self-confidence, or is her quiet demeanor simply a reflection of strongly held cultural values—piety, modesty, and respect for authority?
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471174793?v=glance (891 words)

	Popular Culture -- MUSIC
		The revised American Studies dissertation of one of America’s foremost rock critics is a searching study of the gritty roots of what has become glossy pop culture.
		Theorizing the Body in African-American Music Looks at Western attitudes toward music and the body—which attitudes, the author claims, have distorted our perceptions of (and reactions to) African music and its African-American descendents.
		Incisive study of various musical ethnic subcultures and their complex negotiations with the dominant culture and their co-resisters in a global/local struggle over meaning.
	www.wsu.edu /~amerstu/pop/music.html (1214 words)

	Puerto Rican Literature
		Puerto Rican literature on the island has been characterized by a number of recurrent themes concerning the definition of cultural and national identity as a way to solve the contradiction of being Latina American but U.S. citizens, of being a Caribbean nation which is still US territory yet culturally and linguistically different.
		Puerto Rican identity is for these writers something complex they have to explore and redefine all the time but it is also something new and full of life and energy as a product of the interaction of cultures on American soil.
		Many critics have pointed out that Puerto Rican literature is split between two shores: Puerto Rican literature written by island authors and the more recent Puerto Rican literature written in the United States by the sons and daughters of the different migratory waves along the twentieth century.
	webs.ono.com /usr048/pricans (1339 words)

	Comedy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		(Click link for more info and facts about List of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time) List of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time - Almost exclusively American.
		(Click link for more info and facts about List of British TV shows remade for the American market) List of British TV shows remade for the American market
		(Click link for more info and facts about Alternative comedy) Alternative comedy- a largely British term relating to comedians in the ascendant throughout the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s and beyond.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /Encyclopedia/C/Co/Comedy.htm (910 words)

	Puerto Rico's Culture: Famous Puerto Ricans
		She was a poet, writer, professor and a prestigious critic of Puerto Rican and Hispanic American literature, she was an elementary and secondary school teacher.
		Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, this Puerto Rican/American actress made her Broadway debut in Call Me Madam (1952) and won the Tony Award as best actress for her Broadway role in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
		This distinguished jurist and novelist was born to Puerto Rican immigrants in a New York tenement.
	welcome.topuertorico.org /culture/famouspr.shtml (910 words)

	Battle of San Juan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of San Juan, not to be confused with the Battle of San Juan Hill, refers to an American naval attack on the fortifications of San Juan, Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan (910 words)

	Puerto Rican Land Campaign, Part 1
		While Miles had sufficient transport vessels for moving his troops to Puerto Rico, he was concerned about not having enough armored battleships to protect the troop transports in the event of an attack by Spanish torpedo boats, which had already sallied out of San Juan to attack American warships twice before.
		The Puerto Rican campaign was now the highest priority of the McKinley administration as the Spanish government of Prime Minister Sagasta had approached the French government to serve as a go-between to initiate peace negotiations with the United States (Millis 1931:336).
		Accepting General Miles overall authority for the Puerto Rican campaign, Captain Higginson ordered a change in the course of the fleet south through the Mona Channel and dispatched the DIXIE to meet the NEW ORLEANS, then on blockade duty off San Juan on the evening of July 24th.
	www.spanamwar.com /puertoland1.htm (910 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: Ramos-Pellicia, Michelle
		This study describes phonological variation in a variety of Spanish found in Lorain, Ohio, considering the dynamics of interaction of two minority dialects, Lorain Puerto Rican Spanish (henceforth LPRS) and Mexican American Spanish (hereafter MAS), in the context of American English (henceforth AE) as a majority language.
		One hundred four people representing the Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and AE speakers of Lorain and the Puerto Ricans of the island were recorded.
		The Spanish spoken by second and third generation LPRS speakers shows influence from AE in the use of a labiodental [v] for (b) and a retroflex for (r).
	rave.ohiolink.edu /etdc/view?acc_num=osu1101755688 (410 words)

	Latin Beat Magazine: Remembering Rafael Hernández. (compositor ... @ HighBeam Research
		In 1947, Puerto Rico's Governor Muñoz Marin requested he change the lyric "del tirano la negra maldad" (the American tyrant's wickedness, a reference to the alleged American colonialism) to "del destino la negra maldad (the destiny of the wickedness)." Rafael Hernández was hailed a Puerto Rican hero by the government.
		As the Puerto Rican population increased, musicians replaced the pianola.
		In 1919 all of the Puerto Ricans in the area congregated daily at a bodega on 102nd street between 2nd & 3rd avenues to buy groceries and to socialize.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19516979&refid=holomed_1 (2313 words)

	80.06.08: Puerto Rican Cultural Differences in Politics
		The acquisition of Puerto Rico by the United States after the Spanish-American War was a drastic turning point; the Foraker Act of 1901, Puerto Rico’s first American constitution, drafted by Congress without consultation, proved to be a political setback.
		The political involvement of Puerto Ricans and other minorities in New Haven and throughout the United States is very small in comparison with their ratio to the entire population.
		The Puerto Ricans have remained, to a large extent, greatly influenced by the old Spanish culture which first was introduced during the period of Spanish settlement.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1980/6/80.06.08.x.html (2313 words)

	Puerto Rican Literature
		Puerto Rican literature on the island has been characterized by a number of recurrent themes concerning the definition of cultural and national identity as a way to solve the contradiction of being Latina American but U.S. citizens, of being a Caribbean nation which is still US territory yet culturally and linguistically different.
		Puerto Rican identity is for these writers something complex they have to explore and redefine all the time but it is also something new and full of life and energy as a product of the interaction of cultures on American soil.
		Many critics have pointed out that Puerto Rican literature is split between two shores: Puerto Rican literature written by island authors and the more recent Puerto Rican literature written in the United States by the sons and daughters of the different migratory waves along the twentieth century.
	webs.ono.com /usr048/pricans (2313 words)

	ALVAN COLON LESPIER
		The POC Caucus is an initiative within the network that currently brings together its African American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Japanese, and Native American members.
		Puerto Rican coastal and highland musical genres and dance forms, contemporary Latin jazz influences, Spanish and African tales and the urban experience of living in New York are common sources for the development of our plays.
		Pregones is a Puerto Rican theater based in the South Bronx — that pluricultural, multi-lingual border town, north of Manhattan, south of Canada, and 1500 miles from Puerto Rico.
	www.ntcp.org /compendium/artists/ALVAN.html (1815 words)

	Courses Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
		Nuyorican/Puerto Rican, Dominican-American, Cuban and Cuban-American contributions in the context of historical and political processes.
		Historical evolution of the movement of Puerto Ricans between the island and the U.S. examined within the colonial context and the international circulation of workers.
		Origin and development of Puerto Rican culture on the island and in the U.S. Selective focus on the family, religion, morality, race relations, sex roles, and institutions of authority.
	latcar.rutgers.edu /courses.html (1815 words)

	Ivan Illich - Toward a History of Needs
		From 1956 to 1960 he was assigned as vice-rector to the Catholic university of Puerto Rico, where he organized an intensive training center for American priests in Latin American culture.
		He came to the United States in 1951, where he served as assistant pastor in an Irish-Puerto Rican parish in New York City.
		Illich was co-founder of the widely known and controversial Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and since 1964 he has directed research seminars on `Institutional Alternatives in a Technological Society', with special focus on Latin America.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /Illich01.htm (1815 words)

	Longevity Estimates of Puerto Rican Birds
		11983 I. The maximum longevity estimate for the Puerto Rican Vireo exceeds those listed for nearly all North American vireos IKlimkiewicz et al., 1983 I. Such is also the case for the resident Adelaide's Warbler when compared to North American warblers of the genus Dendroica.
		Although the estimated ages of 11 years, 7 months for the Puerto Rican Flycatcher and Pearly-eyed Thrasher are impressive, these birds are appreciably larger (22 and 100 g, respectivelyI and seemingly more durable than the body.
		Here we present estimates of the longevity of Puerto Rican birds gathered during a 15-year study at a single site on that island.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/NABB/v014n01/p0011-p0013.html (1815 words)

	Doug Forrester for U.S. Senate
		�Puerto Rican and Polish Americans and I share a vision of strong families and communities fostered by empowering people, not government.
		(HAMILTON, OCTOBER 27) � U.S. Senate candidate Doug Forrester announced today the endorsements of the Puerto Rican American Foundation; Jorge Santini, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico; Luis Ferre, former Governor of Puerto Rico; and the Polish American Congress.
		�I look forward to working with the Puerto Rican and Polish communities and all New Jerseyans to empower more people when I get to the United States Senate.
	www.politicsnj.com /forrester102702e.htm (1815 words)

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