Final Project: From Puerto Rico to Brooklyn - Starting a New Life
Alicia Araujo, Final Project George Mason University Spring 2023 Hist 390-DL1: The Digital Past: Doing Oral History in the Digital Age Instructor: Katharina Hering, PhD, MLIS My final project is an interview by John D. Vazquez who interviews Puerto Rican migrant Luis Hernandez, conducted November 4, 1974. Luis Hernandez was approximately 51 years old when this interview took place. Luis Hernandez and his family migrated from Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, New York in 1926, when he was about 3 years old. He came on a boat, similar to the story from my primary blog post: Voices of Generations , which was the primary location for migration for Puerto Ricans during that time. PR Immigration Chart from Wikimedia showing New York has continued to be the primary hub for Puerto Rican migration To provide some context for this blog post, I feel it is important to highlight that Puerto Ricans are US Citizens by birth since 1917. As noted by Jorge Duany in his article “Nation, Migrati...