Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who were already in the city "find their own customs and way of life under the pressure of strangers they do not understand. They fear the threat to their own values. This is the fear that is reflected in the gradual creation of a stereotype of the Puerto Rican as criminal...
Though heavily populated Puerto Rico has little gang warfare and few juvenile delinquents, the Puerto Rican in Manhattan seems, from the headlines, to be responsible for a frightening wave of gang killing, drug addiction and thievery. Dissenting from this impression, and in fact seeing hope in the Puerto Rican migration, is the Rev. Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J., a Fordham University associate professor of sociology. Last week at a conference in Puerto Rico of the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials...
Bringing their habits and values with them, the immigrant Irish, Germans, Italians and Jews became strangers in a new land, suffered from the cultural conflict, found it hard, at first, to escape from slums. Now this is the Puerto Rican plight. Says Fitzpatrick: "The poverty of Puerto Ricans, their language handicap, their lack of sophistication about mainland city life, leave them, at this moment, particularly exposed to exploitation. The things that gave a man or woman dignity and honor in a Puerto Rican village are greeted with ridicule in New York...
Racial Intermarriage. Fitzpatrick sees the Puerto Rican migration as a real boon to New York and America. Unlike the previous immigrants, the Puerto Ricans bring with them a history of rack-tolerance and a tradition of social intermingling that lets them marry people of other skin colors, from Negroes to whites...
...years ago with a quiet pilot project, financed by the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Fund for Negro Students, at Manhattan's Junior High School 43 on the western fringe of Harlem. No school could have been better chosen. Its students (85% Negro and Puerto Rican) 'rere demoralized and uninterested; de-leatist parents saw little future for their children and took scant notice of their schooling...