Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Works of Luis Rafael Sanchez

Hispania ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 276
Author(s):  
Jorge Febles ◽  
John Dimitri Perivolaris
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Luis Rafael Sanchez

Narratives of Fracture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ylce Irizarry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Ethnic Populations ◽  
Large Populations

This chapter illustrates how one's cultural identity is defined just as much by geographic location, gender, class, and political ideology than by perceived race or ethnic self-identification. It studies two texts by Puerto Rican authors to show how individuals challenge rigid notions of ethnonationalism: Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Latin Deli: Telling the Lives of Barrio Women (1993) and Ernesto Quiñonez's Bodega Dreams (2000). Set in the proximate urban Northeastern cities—Paterson, New Jersey, and New York City, respectively—with large populations of Puerto Ricans, other kinds of Latinas/os, and other underrepresented ethnic populations, the books challenge persistent definitions of puertorriqueñidad—the essence of one's Puerto Rican identity. Ortiz Cofer portrays the confinement women experience due to patriarchal Puerto Rican family values while Quiñonez portrays the confinement Puerto Rican men experience due to their ethnonational loyalties.

Marital Stability Among Jewish and Mixed Couples Following Immigration to Israel From the Former Soviet Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoav Lavee ◽  
Ludmila Krivosh
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Marital Stability ◽  
Marital Instability ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Marital Outcomes ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

This research aims to identify factors associated with marital instability among Jewish and mixed (Jewish and non-Jewish) couples following immigration from the former Soviet Union. Based on the Strangeness Theory and the Model of Acculturation, we predicted that non-Jewish immigrants would be less well adjusted personally and socially to Israeli society than Jewish immigrants and that endogamous Jewish couples would have better interpersonal congruence than mixed couples in terms of personal and social adjustment. The sample included 92 Jewish couples and 92 ethnically-mixed couples, of which 82 couples (40 Jewish, 42 mixed) divorced or separated after immigration and 102 couples (52 Jewish, 50 ethnically mixed) remained married. Significant differences were found between Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants in personal adjustment, and between endogamous and ethnically-mixed couples in the congruence between spouses in their personal and social adjustment. Marital instability was best explained by interpersonal disparity in cultural identity and in adjustment to life in Israel. The findings expand the knowledge on marital outcomes of immigration, in general, and immigration of mixed marriages, in particular.

1980-1985 Philadelphia Study of Premarital Sex Relations and Pregnancy Among Puerto Rican Youths

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel J. Gutierrez ◽  
◽  
Braulio Montalvo ◽  
Kay Armstrong ◽  
David Webb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Premarital Sex
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