nuyorican

Nuyorican is a blending of the terms "New York" and "Puerto Rican" and refers to the members or culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora located in or around New York State especially the New York City metropolitan area with a major hub of over 500,000 Puerto Ricans living in Northern New Jersey, or of their descendants (especially those raised or still living in the New York area). The term is also used by Boricuas (Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico) to differentiate those of Puerto Rican descent from the Puerto Rico-born. The term Nuyorican is also sometimes used to refer to the Spanish spoken by New York Puerto Ricans. An estimated 800,000 Nuyoricans are said to live in New York city, the largest Puerto Rican community outside Puerto Rico. Nuyoricans are not considered Puerto Ricans by Boricuas due to cultural differences.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Beginnings 2 Differences with Puerto Ricans and other Latinos 3 History of the term 4 Notes 5 See also 6 External links //

Beginnings

Mainly the Nuyoricans are second and third-generation, whose parents or grandparents represent the Gran migración of Puerto Ricans. The majority of Puerto Ricans in the city began to arrive in the 1930s, then came in larger waves in the 1940s and 1950s, but the Gran migración had come to a halt by 1960. Historically, the Nuyoricans resided in the predominantly Hispanic/Latino section of Manhattan known as Spanish Harlem, and around the Loisaida section of the East Village, but they expanded across the city in the 1960s and 1970s into newly-created Puerto Rican/Nuyorican enclaves in Brooklyn, Queens and the South Bronx. Today, there are fewer Puerto Rican-born persons than Puerto Rican-descended people as a proportion of New York City's large Hispanic community, now made up of other Latin Americans since the 1990s or people living or were born in New York.

Differences with Puerto Ricans and other Latinos

A study done by the University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras) showed that many from Puerto Rico do not consider Nuyoricans to be Puerto Ricans. Nuyoricans share cultural traits with African-Americans that differ from Latinos. The Nuyorican tie to African-Americans in New York City is said to be due to intermarriage with African-Americans and shared neighborhoods. Puerto Ricans elsewhere such as in Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Los Angeles or Texas, are assimilated with the Latino populations in those cities, unlike in New York City.[1]

History of the term

The Oxford English Dictionary cites this word as evolving slowly through roughly the last third of the 20th century, with the first cited reference being poet Jaime Carrero using neorriqueño in 1964 as a Spanish-language adjective combining neoyorquino and puertorriqueño. Many other variants developed along the way, including neoricano, neorican (also written as Neo-Rican and Neorican), and newyorican (also written as New Yorrican). Nuyorican itself dates at least from 1975, the date of