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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!:
Puerto Ricans faced racial discrimination, class-related hardships, and lived on the margins of a city that only valued them for their cheap labor. [8] Puerto Ricans in Chicago carried deep feelings of resentment towards the police. Puerto Ricans associated the police with poor service of the community and brutal, rude interactions.
Impoverished Puerto Rican families now had the prospect of being able to move into the neighborhood and live an idyllic middle class life, as had traditionally been the characterization of Humboldt Park since the 1880s. [4] From 1950 to 1960, the Puerto Rican population of Chicago jumped from 255 to 32,371. [11]
The Humboldt Park riot was the second major conflict between Puerto Ricans in Chicago and the Chicago Police Department. The riot began on June 4, 1977, and lasted a day and a half. [2] Following the shooting deaths of two Puerto Rican men, locals (mostly young Puerto Ricans) battled Chicago police officers in Humboldt Park and in the streets ...
Puerto Ricans are now reportedly the second largest Latino subgroup in those states. Bad Bunny's comments appeared to be pre-planned, and he did not address the remarks by Hinchcliffe.
“Puerto Rico is home to some of the most talented, innovative and ambitious people in our nation,” she said. “Puerto Ricans deserve a president who sees and invests in that strength.”
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.