Ethnography in the City: Phillipe Bourgois and the Barrio Cities exist for many reasons and the diversity of urban form and function can be traced to the complex roles that cities perform. Cities serve as centers of storage, commerce, and industry. The agricultural surplus from the surround...

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Esmeralda Santiago experienced life in a variety of ways. Through her book she shares a number of these experiences, many that played an important role in shaping her as an individual. She shows her experiences from the earliest part of her youth through her life as you...

When I Was Puerto Rican The biographical tale When I was Puerto Rican, written by Esmeralda Santiago, tells of a poor girl trying to succeed. The settings in this novel have an important influence on Esmeralda; they change her ideals and influence her behavior as an adult. In When I Was Puerto Ri...

Multiculturalism, is very back bone of the country that we live in. The united States from its very earliest existence has been a melting pot of different cultures. Immigrants have always gone to life threating extents to immigrate to this country to find a better life. In the film El Norte and,...

 It all started on July 30th, 1909 when Juan Bosch was born to a Catalan father and a Puerto Rican mother. Juan Bosch was born in La Vega, Dominican Republic where most of the income came from farming. Due to Bosch's surrounding he grew up close to peasants and landowners, even though his ...

Hispanic people have always played an important part in history of the United States. As early as the 1500's, Spanish explorers and colonists settled on the Caribbean islands that are today known as Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. In 1898, ...

"American History" is a story about a girl in 1963. She is a Puerto Rican girl and she lives in the tenement building El Building. She sits on the fire escape and watches the family in the house beside her, a family from Georgia. Over time, she feels like part of the family. In school,...

A very important element in American culture today is sports, especially amongst blacks. The struggle for blacks to participate in sports was a difficult encounter in the earlier 1900's. However, due to various black leaders, such as Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson, they have open many doors...

Same Races, Different Faces In "Black vs. White" is not a story only seen in the United States of America. It is a problem which has, and still continues to plague many sections of the world. This problem, in many instances, goes beyond a stereotypical belief that the battle is fought due to cu...

PIRI THOMAS Down These Mean Streets Throughout the literary life of New York, many writers have concentrated their works on the influence that the atmosphere of the city has had on their lifestyle. There is hardly a major American, English, Irish, French, or Spanish writer who hasn't pour...

Aspects of Life in Puerto Rico Imagine all the nations in the world belonging to one big family. The United States would be the father, China the mother, Japan the daughter, France the son, and so on. In this family of nations, Puerto Rico would only be a family relative. Proud to be Ameri...

Reaction: Corruption in P.R. "Lack of integrity or honesty, susceptibility to bribery; use of a position of trust for dishonest gain" is how the WordNet dictionary defines corruption. Although corruption in Puerto Rico may have a slightly different meaning, I will opt not to get into th...