Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

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 Nuyorican is also sometimes used to refer to the Spanish spoken by New York Puerto Ricans. An estimated 800,000 Puerto Ricans (including the popular self-title Nuyoricans) are said to live in New York city, the largest Puerto Rican community outside Puerto Rico. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (820x615, 79 KB)[edit] Summary The author of this photo is me, David Shankbone. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (820x615, 79 KB)[edit] Summary The author of this photo is me, David Shankbone. ... For other uses, see Diaspora (disambiguation). ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... The metropolitan area of New York City, also called Greater New York or Greater New York City is defined by the U.S. Census as the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT Metropolitan Statistical Area based on broad social and economic integration, which is divided into... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ...

Mainly the Nuyoricans are second and third-generation, but their 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, and the Gran migración came to a halt by 1960. Historically, the Nuyoricans resided in the predominantly Hispanic/ Latino section of Manhattan known as Spanish Harlem, 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 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. For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... 125th Street between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue Spanish Harlem, also known as El Barrio, is a neighborhood in the East Harlem area of New York City, in the north-eastern part of the borough of Manhattan. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ...

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 J. Carrero using neorriqueño in 1964 as a Spanish-language adjective combining neoyorquino and puertorriqueño, and many other variants occurring along the way, including neorican, neoricano, newyorican, Neo-Rican, Neorican, and New Yorrican. Nuyorican itself dates at least from 1975, the date of the first public sessions of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a New York City performance venue, best known for slam poetry, but also presenting theater, stand-up comedy, Latin jazz, hip-hop performance, and screenplay readings, the café is a non-profit organization. ...

In recent decades, the term has been use as a derogative term by native Puerto Ricans when describing a person that has Puerto Rican ancestry but is born in the United States, in the same way that Mexicans call people of Mexican descent that are born in the USA, Chicanos. This has been changing with the increase in travel back and forth to different parts of the United States and the globe to include Puerto Rican ex-pats and descendants in areas other than New York.

While the term has negative connotations to some, it is proudly used by some members of this community to identify their history and cultural affiliation to a common ancestry while being separated from the island, both physically and through language and cultural shifts. This distance created a dual identity that, while still somewhat identifying with the island, recognizes the influences both geography and cultural assimilation have had.

See also

• Nuyorican Movement
• Loisaida
• Puerto Ricans in the United States

The Nuyorican Movement is an intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are Puerto Ricans or of Puerto Rican descent and who live in or near New York City and call themselves or are known as Nuyoricans. The word Nuyorican derives from a combination of the words New... Loisaida mural by local artist Antonio Garcia, aka Chico. Loisaida is a term derived from the Hispanic (and especially Puerto Rican) pronunciation of Lower East Side, a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. ... National Puerto Rican Parade in New York City, 2005 (photo by Angelo Falcón) Stateside Puerto Ricans (also known as “Puerto Ricans in the United States”, “U.S.-based Puerto Ricans”, the Puerto Rican diaspora, or mainland Puerto Ricans) are persons born or descended from parents born in the Caribbean...

External links

• Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA)

• Nuyorican cinema

• Soraida Martinez, New York born artist of Puerto Rican heritage known as creator of Verdadism