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Nuyorican

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Nu·yo·ri·can  (ny-rkn)
n. Informal
A person of Puerto Rican birth or descent living primarily in New York City.

[Blend of New York and (Puerto) Rican.]

Nuyo·rican adj.


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A I'm very proud of Nuyorican Soul as to me it's a timeless piece of work.
The six chapters focus on six major waves of immigration in relation to six American popular culture trends or forms and their impact throughout the twentieth century: Jewish immigrants in relation to gangster movies in the 1930s, Mexican immigrants to the zoot suits of the 1940s, Puerto Rican immigrants to Nuyorican music in the 1950s, Indian immigration to the hippies of the 1960s, Jamaican immigrants to rap and reggae in the 1970s, and Asian immigrants to cyberzines in the 1990s.
Campbell shows that the Nuyorican poet Tato Laviera sometimes writes in the Spanish-English hybrid variety called Spanglish as "a protest against the notion that standard linguistic forms are superior.
 
 
 
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