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In 1961 he published A Puerto Rican in New York, and other sketches, containing various vignettes about his life. He also had two posthumous collections, titled Lo que el pueblo me dice--: crónicas de la colonia puertorriqueña en Nueva York and The way it was, and other writings: historical vignettes about the New York Puerto Rican community.
By 1953, Puerto Rican migration to New York reached its peak when 75,000 people left the island. [11] Ricky Martin at the annual Puerto Rican parade in New York City. Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra") is the name given to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century engineered by Teodoro ...
Nuyorican has a broad meaning; originally it meant Puerto Ricans, both island-born and mainland-born, living in New York, but many island-born Puerto Ricans use the term to describe assimilated Americans of Puerto Rican descent living in any US state, or very assimilated people of Puerto Rican ancestry who may be more culturally aligned with ...
When Vega first arrived to New York City in 1916, the Puerto Rican population was only a few thousand. Many of these migrants came from the cigar making profession in Puerto Rico and Cuba. [2] This led to employment for many of these migrants at cigar-making shops or other factories, where their tabaquero skills were used. [2]
A wave of domestic migration from Puerto Rico to New York City came after World War II. Nearly 40,000 Puerto Ricans settled in New York City in 1946, and 58,500 in 1952–53. Many soldiers who returned after World War II made use of the GI Bill and went to college. Puerto Rican women confronted economic exploitation, discrimination, racism, and ...
In 2006 New York City's Dominican population decreased for the first time since the 1980s, dropping by 1.3% from 609,885 in 2006 to 602,093 in 2007. Dominicans are the city's fifth-largest ancestry group (behind Irish, Italian, German and Puerto Rican) and, in 2009, it was estimated that they compromised 24.9% of New York City's Latino population.
It was one of the first Puerto Rican theater companies to be founded and is credited with kickstarting the Hispanic and Puerto Rican theater scene in New York. The first production by the company was La Carreta (The Oxcart) in 1953, written by René Marqués and directed by founder Roberto Rodríguez. Although the success of El Nuevo Círculo ...
During the 1960s, Agüeros worked with a variety of community groups in New York. Starting out at the Henry Street Settlement, he moved on to the Office of Economic Opportunity, a federal agency created by President Lyndon Johnson to fight the War on Poverty, before becoming the deputy director of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project (PRCDP), [3] the nation's first Puerto Rican anti ...