Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handlin concludes that Negro and Puerto Rican groups must develop closer communal institutions. He points out that these ethnic groups will continue to live in cohesive settlements, and does not believe that dispersal will solve economic and social prejudice...
Father Joseph Fitzpatrick's view on Puerto Rican crime [Oct. 26] is the typical head-in-the-clouds attitude of sociologists, who spend too much time in the library and not enough time in the streets. Irish and German immigrant crime a century ago is a historical fact but not an excuse for today's crime. Father Fitzpatrick and other sociologists should present workable solutions to immigrant crime instead of simply apologizing...
Says kind Father Fitzpatrick: "The things that gave a man or woman dignity and honor in a Puerto Rican village are greeted with ridicule in New York." Really, Father Fitz? Since when are rape, murder, robbery and slashings considered a mark of dignity...
...most refreshing to read Father Fitzpatrick's evaluation of Puerto Ricans in relation to the delinquency problem in New York City, and his notation that every immigrant group, when it first settled, got into the same trouble, but that as time passed, these groups have become adapted and respectable. Being a Puerto Rican myself, and very proud of it, I was most happy to read this article...
...study last year of the behavior of Puerto Ricans in six Catholic parishes in New York," Fitzpatrick reported. "I found that 25% of all the Puerto Rican marriages involved people of noticeably different shades of color. It is my own hope that they will make explicit the principles of human brotherhood, of universal respect for men and women, that have been implicit in their culture. If they do they will have brought a priceless contribution to the life of the mainland...