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Feb 4, 2014 · Sotomayor’s parents moved to New York City from Puerto Rico during World War II. Puerto Ricans are American citizens, and have been since 1917 when President Woodrow Wilson signed the...
Oct 13, 2017 · From the Lower East Side Tenement Museum: "Nuyorican" started as an insult but evolved into a word symbolizing the strength of Puerto Rican migrants living in New York City.
When I Was Puerto Rican chronicles Esmeralda Santiago's childhood in Puerto Rico and her family’s migration to New York City when she was thirteen. Esmeralda is four when the story begins, living with her parents, Ramona and Pablo , and two younger sisters.
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Oct 12, 2020 · Puerto Ricans could move freely from Puerto Rico to America and vice versa. New York is a mosaic of Latin American Cultures. Initially, Puerto Ricans were consigned to the barrios...
Active Themes. Negi tells the reader that she wrote to Papi for several weeks after arriving in Brooklyn. When Negi's siblings arrived, however, they told Negi that Papi married another woman after Mami left Puerto Rico and sent the children to live with other relatives.
Before her thirteenth birthday, Pablo breaks the news that the children are moving to New York with Ramona. He tells Esmeralda before Ramona has a chance to. Her parents devolve into a fight, Ramona defending herself that she has no choice and Pablo feeling that what he does is never enough.
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Generously, Esmeralda Santiago shares with the reader her memories of her Puerto Rican childhood and her bewildering years of transition in New York City. I admire the courage it took to make that journey—and then to write about it with such a clear eye.
