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Mumm, Jesse Stewart. "When the white people come: Gentrification and race in Puerto Rican Chicago" (PhD diss. Northwestern University, 2014). Padilla, Felix M. Latino ethnic consciousness: the case of Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago (University of Notre Dame Press, 1985). Pallares, Amalia, and Nilda Flores-González, eds. ¡ Marcha!:
José Jiménez (August 8, 1948 – January 10, 2025), nicknamed Cha Cha, was a Puerto Rican-American political activist and the founder of the Young Lords, a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization.
Regardless of the precise terminology, the Census reported that the bulk [clarification needed] of the Puerto Rican population was white from 1899 to 2000. [18] [19] In the 2000 U.S. Census Puerto Ricans were asked to choose which racial category they self-identified with. The breakdown was follows: white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8% ...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), whose state is home to more than 1 million people of Puerto Rican descent, responded almost instantly to the controversy Sunday evening, with a post on the social ...
The View co-host Sunny Hostin has delivered a passionate response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist comments about Puerto Rico at ... Puerto Ricans, trash collection day is November 5, 2024 ...
I will always do whatever I can to help any Puerto Rican in Florida or on the island." Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., called Hinchcliffe's comments " completely classless " and "in poor taste."
Young Lords logo on a building wall, December 27, 2003. The Young Lords [a] was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil rights and human rights organization. [2] [3] The group, most active in the late 1960s and 1970s, aimed to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-determination for Puerto Rico, Latino, and colonized ("Third World") people.
Many in the Puerto Rican community said they feel the sting of the remarks, saying they especially put the focus back on the criticism Trump got for his handling of Hurricane Maria while he was ...