Oscar Handlin, The Newcomers: Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis.

NEWCOMERS: Negroes & Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis, The (Book); HANDLIN, Oscar, 1915-2011; AFRICAN American social conditions; SOCIAL conditions of immigrants; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); IMMIGRANTS; SOCIAL conditions in New York (N.Y.); PUERTO Ricans; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY of immigrants

UNITED States; NEW York (N.Y.)

A literary criticism of the book "The Newcomers: Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis," by Jewish-American historian Oscar Handlin, is presented. It distinguishes between Handlin's other books, discusses Handlin's argument concerning the ethnic hierarchy of Puerto Ricans and African Americans in New York City in the 1950s, and examines Handlin's analysis of the assimilation of immigrants to New York City. The article also discusses Handlin's analysis of discrimination against African Americans and Puerto Ricans.