This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Worker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage, his grim...

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Not a bad account of Puerto Rico in the 20-50's. Its one person's life that changes, obviously, through the plantation years of PR to a more industrial way of living. Sidney W. Mintz humanizes the `cane worker' in this vibrant ethnography in which he combines knowledge gained during a formal research...

Worker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage In the concluding chapters the author interprets Don Taso's experience in the light of the changing patterns of life in rural Puerto Rico.

In January 1948 I went to Puerto Rico as a member of a group of graduate students in anthropology from Columbia University and the University of Our aim was to select communities representative of major ways of life of the Puerto Rican people. I decided to select a community in the highly...

The life experiences will be retrieved using the oral history method from short audio and/or video In the musical West Side Story (1961), Puerto Ricans are described as arriving "to New York like The Puerto Ricans immigrated to New York under employment contracts or by using their social networks...

Worker in the cane by Sidney Wilfred Mintz, 1974, Greenwood Press edition, in English. Worker in the cane. a Puerto Rican life history.

Worker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early In the concluding chapters the author interprets Don Taso's experience in the light of the changing patterns of life in rural Puerto Rico.… (more).

Puerto Rican resident in Puerto Rico and excluded those who resided in Hawaii. When the Puerto Ricans immigrated to Hawaii they took along with them their music and their musical instruments. ^ Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History; by Sidney W. Mintz.; page 257; Publisher: Yale...

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Puerto Rico is a large Caribbean island of roughly 3,500 square miles located in the West Indies. It's the easternmost island of the Greater Antilles In order to produce cash crops such as sugar cane, ginger, tobacco and coffee, the Spanish began importing more slaves from Africa in the 16th century.

This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees...

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Worker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage, his grim struggle to provide for his family. He tells of his radical political beliefs and union activity during the Depression and describes his...

Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History. Sidney W. Mintz. ISBN: 0393007316. 10 study materials. Get started today for free. All Documents from Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History. hist 243 final 2011-07-03.

Puerto Rico sits at the center of multiple historical conversations. Together we will explore these connections, historical constructions, and debates. Price. 0393007316. Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History. Sidney Mintz. Amherst Books.

And Puerto Rico - a US territory that has always existed in it own cultural spectrum - has a history of repeating those same patriarchal patterns. But the fight for Puerto Rican independence in the mid-20th century included many women like Lolita Lebrón and Blanca Canales, who were just as...

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A Puerto Rican Life History (New Haven, 1960.) 2. Out of his research on Puerto Rico Zayas cut cane only once during his decades in the cane, and quit by mid-morning: Mintz, Worker in the Lewis argued that in the twentieth century Puerto Rican rural workers became propertyless and...

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The collapse of productivity in the Puerto Rican sugar manufacturing industry meant that prots also crashed, to the point where production was no longer viable. A cane-farm is a farm where sugarcane is the primary crop.

Puerto Ricans reside in all fifty of the United States, with significant concentrations in New York American citizens by congressional fiat, Puerto Ricans enjoyed a long, well-documented history Many lived full lives in the service of advancing diasporic communities, while others chose to make...

The book traces the life of Pedro Albizu Campos and the Puerto Rican independence movement, which continues on the island to this day. Meticulously sourced with over 700 footnotes and dozens of photographs, the book is, in the words of one reviewer, "not just history.

Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican life history (1960) Sweetness and Power(1985) -food habits is a result of power Peurto Ricans produce but don't eat product -chew cane, drink, unrefined -final refining si done elsewhere -tropical foods=issues of power where, how much, for what? -rum, sugar, coffee...

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This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own... words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them.Worker in the Cane is both a profound social...