1 oct. 1960 - Puetro Ricans skin comparisons

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-White residents often judged Puerto Ricans’ racial identity in relation to African Americans
-White people were locating Puerto Ricans closer to blackness
-Racial objections to Puerto Ricans were not limited to verbal assaults or insults but sometimes lead to physical conflicts
-Puerto Ricans were outnumbered by the Whites, which made them easy targets
- The white youth gams would firebomb automobiles and homes of Puerto Ricans
-The Puerto Ricans youth gangs were formed to defend themselves from White hostility
-"for Puerto Ricans, just as for African Americans, 'Years of harassment by ‘white’ youths had created a tradition of antiwhite sentiment on the streets.'" (pg.158).

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