The “Puerto Rican Downside” in Postwar New York Metropolis Edgardo Meléndez discusses his new e book.
The Gotham Middle for New York Metropolis Historical past
Date and time
Tue, November 29, 2022, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Location
On-line
About this occasion
1 hour half-hour
Cellular eTicket (free)
On this new e book of the identical title, Edgardo Meléndez presents the primary complete examine of the “Puerto Rican downside” in postwar New York Metropolis—a notion that started with the arrival of migrants from the US colony in 1945 and developed over the subsequent fifteen years into an intense marketing campaign for insurance policies by the federal government of Puerto Rico (granted commonwealth standing in 1952) and New York to ease their settlement into town and different areas of america. The “downside” served as a basis for tutorial ideas just like the “tradition of poverty,” later embedded into the JFK-LBJ administration’s Battle on Poverty. It additionally functioned because the inspiration for icons of American in style tradition like Arthur Laurents’s West Aspect Story, which popularized most of the stereotypes of the day, shaping the way in which Puerto Ricans had been studied and understood for generations. Right here, Meléndez, a retired professor of CUNY’s Hunter School and the College of Puerto Rico, explores its roots, growth, and penalties.
Virginia E. Sánchez Korrol, writer of From Colonia to Group: The Historical past of Puerto Ricans in New York Metropolis, joins in dialog with the writer.
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