Growing Up Puerto Rican (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: n/a
- First Published: 1972
- Time of Work: 1950–1970
- Setting: New York City (Spanish Harlem and the Bronx) and Puerto Rico
- Principal Characters: Fernanda, “The Winner,”, Juan, “The Reformed Junkie,”, Rosita, “The Fatherless Child,”, Mario, “The Young Lord,”, Joachim, “The Scholar,”
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Racism, Adolescence, Teenagers, Sex or sexuality, New York City, Autobiography, Violence, Multiculturalism, Latinos, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans
- Locales: New York, NY, Puerto Rico
Form and Content
For Growing Up Puerto Rican, Paulette Cooper, a clinical psychologist, interviewed seventeen young Puerto Ricans who came to New York City with their families or who were born shortly after the family moved there. The book is introduced in a foreword by José Torres, a Puerto Rican American, and a preface by Cooper herself, which provide perspective on the accounts that follow. Torres contrasts the early sexual experiences, the widespread use of street drugs, and the violence of these young people’s lives with the innocence of his own upbringing in...
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