Labor Market Segmentation: African American and Puerto Rican Labor in New York City, 1960–1980

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Torres
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
York City ◽  
Labor Market Segmentation

Mambo

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet McMains
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
York City ◽  
Economic Capital

Mambo music, which emerged in Cuba in the 1940s but was popularized in Mexico City and New York, blended jazz harmonies and instrumentation with Afro-Cuban rhythms. Mambo dancing evolved in New York City in the late 1940s and became an international dance craze by the early 1950s. The dance was based on the Cuban son, with the addition of turns borrowed from American swing dancing, and solo dance steps adopted from Cuban rumba, Puerto Rican bomba, and African American jazz. The dance emerged through the intermingling of these traditions in New York’s dance halls, especially Harlem’s Park Palace/Plaza and the Palladium Ballroom. Jewish resorts in the Catskills provided economic capital to sustain and disseminate the form by employing dozens of mambo bands and dancers every summer. The source of both mambo’s scandal and its appeal was the sensuality of the dance and the unpredictability of its improvisational solo steps. Mambo dancing evolved into salsa dancing in the 1970s and later experienced a resurgence of popularity in the late 1990s and 2000s during the salsa dance craze. Many New York salsa dancers prefer to identify their dancing as mambo, often drawing on 1950s mambo steps for inspiration.

Channelling the dead: A conversation on Desdemona with Tina Benko

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Rapetti
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
York City ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Character Building

Tina Benko is an American stage, screen and television actress who has steadily trodden the Broadway boards for twenty years while starring in films and TV series and teaching acting and movement in New York City. An intensely focused and versatile performer, Benko has played in a broad variety of genres, ranging from screwball and Shakespearean comedies to realistic Russian, Scandinavian and American plays. In this interview, she discusses the factors that attracted her to drama and theatre, her acting training and approach to character-building, and theatre as a space for healing and reconciliation as she experienced it while working in Desdemona (2012), a cross-cultural theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello staged by American theatre and opera director Peter Sellars, with texts by African American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, and music and lyrics by Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré.

scholarly journals Migration and HIV Risk Behaviors: Puerto Rican Drug Injectors in New York City and Puerto Rico

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 812-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry Deren ◽  
Sung-Yeon Kang ◽  
Hector M. Colón ◽  
Jonny F. Andia ◽  
Rafaela R. Robles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
York City ◽  
Hiv Risk Behaviors ◽  
Drug Injectors

A Tale of Two Cities I

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
York City ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
English Speaking

The first of two companion chapters, this essay focuses especially on the historical meeting of European and African American movement vocabularies in English-speaking early-nineteenth-century contexts. It focuses particularly upon public music and dance in two creolized cities: Kingston, Jamaica, and New York City. Primary source evidence includes period illustrations (most notably, a ca. 1802 watercolor entitled A Grand Jamaica Ball) and period accounts of entertainments at lower Manhattan’s African Grove Theater; both are analyzed for the evidence they provide regarding the synthesis of creolized movement vocabularies and, by extension, cultural experiences. Methodology is drawn especially from iconography and kinesics.

Fortitude

2019 ◽  
pp. 194-226
Author(s):  
Robert S. Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
York City ◽  
Residency Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Covert Racism

In New York City, from the 1990s to the present, covert racism is alive and well in the field of medicine and medical education. The most heavily impacted are African American and Caribbean American females and males. The inequitable treatment thus engendered has concrete results ranging from unwarranted criticism in residency education to forced changes of medical occupations and jobs, to false attributions of behavioral health issues. Combating these challenges requires fortified character armor, seeking percipient well positioned minority, white and off-whites allies, and a willingness to maintain continued vigilance. With persistence and tenacity, success is possible in terms of protecting minorities both in the educational process, and in a mature medical life.

The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States

Puerto Rico ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Duany
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Puerto Rican Diaspora

What is the Puerto Rican Day Parade? The Puerto Rican Day Parade (Desfile Puertorriqueño) in New York City is the most visible display of Puerto Rican identity in the United States. The parade was first held in 1959 as an offshoot of the...

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