Introduction. At the crossroads of urban ethnography and Puerto Rican Latinidad / Mérida M. Rúa and Arlene Torres
Part I. Puerto Rican immigrants in New York and Chicago: a study in comparative assimilation / Elena Padilla. Prologue. Looking back and thinking forward ; Preface ; I. Acculturation and assimilation ; II. Methods ; III. Background of the Puerto Rican migrants ; IV. The Puerto Rican migrants in New York City ; V. The Puerto Rican Migrants in Chicago ; VI. Conclusions ; Bibliography
Part 2. Reflections on Puerto Rican immigrants in New York and Chicago ; Puerto Rican "spatio-temporal rhythms" of housing and work / Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores ; Footnotes of social justice: Elena Padilla and Chicago Puerto Rican communities / Mérida M. Rúa ; "White" Puerto Rican migrants, the Mexican colony, "Americanization," and Latino history / Nicholas De Genova ; Gendering "Latino public intellectuals": Personal narratives in the ethnography of Elena Padilla / Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas.