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

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: This article reports on findings to date of Puerto Rican migration to and experiences in Central Florida from the 1940s into the 1980s. To set the course for a study of the making of Puertorriqueidad in Central Florida, the article maps out the historic trajectories that have brought Puerto Ricans to Central Florida and it historicizes the development of Puerto Rican spaces in Central Florida. Puerto Ricans in Central Florida have moved from these different trajectories into a geographic space marked by historic emphases on self reliance and free enterprise, an area where "development" and "neoliberalism" mean the same thing. Pulling together these diverse threads, both geographic and historical, this article proposes further research to be done to address the question of how Puerto Rican experience is redrawing Central Florida, and how Central Florida is redrawing Puerto Rican experience.

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Authors: Silver, Patricia

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Institution: Center for Puerto Rican Studies

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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