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Title: Culture Is More Than Bingo and Salsa: Making Puertorriqued in Central Florida

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Studies Association conference held in San Juan in October 2008 took the geography of puertorriqueñidadas its theme, reframing the tensions between island and diasporic cultural production with a look to the blurred borders that underwrite attempts to locate authenticity. In the conference logo, Florida had prominent visual representation. In Florida, it is the area that surrounds Orlando and Kissimmee—reaching from Disney World to the west to the Space Coast to the east—that has come to be referenced as the new destination of the guagua aérea(Padilla 1999). Puerto Ricans in 2000 comprised over 50 percent of people in Central Florida who self-identify as “Hispanic” (U.S. Census 2000).1Data from the 2008 American Community Survey place the percentage of Puerto Ricans in regard to total population in the Orlando-Kissimmee area at 10.8 percent, greater than New York City at 9.4 percent. In Kissimmee alone, Puerto Ricans account for 22 percent of the total population (U.S. Census 2009) . .

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Authors: Silver, Patricia

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Issue: 1

Volume: 22

Pages: 57-83

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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