Puerto Rican Arrival In New York: Narratives Of The Migration, 1920-1950

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First to disembark were passengers traveling first class – businessmen, well-to-do families, students. In second class, where I used to be, there were the emigrants, most of us tabaqueros, or cigar workers… Thus writes Bernardo Vega On this number of engaging and readable first-hand reminiscences about the mid-20th-century migration from Puerto Rico to the U.S. The documentary importance of these testimonies is evident, particularly in their capturing of the particular voyage from Puerto Rico and arrival in New York. Unlike more contemporary writings about the migration, where attention is riveted at the later process of settlement and intergenerational adjustment, the older narratives dwell at the psychological and existential trauma of arrival and first impressions. On this collection, the element of class difference within the migrating population stands out sharply. At the same time as in subsequent literature such issues transform more intricate and representation of the social classes more oblique, these early texts show that it used to be a divided arrival. For in spite of the structural uniformity and overwhelmingly working-class composition of the immigration, Puerto Ricans came to New York with divergent interests and understandings depending on their class.

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