puerto ricans

Puerto Ricans are the only Hispanic group able to migrate to United States and have automatically the right to become American Citizens, But What American Citizens means? When they arrived to a new land escaping from poverty and political problems, to a place where they thought it will receive them as family. 1940s was the first wave of migration of Puerto Ricans to the US, when they arrived they found themselves working in restaurants; in the kitchen, serving coffee also in factories, cleaning hospitals doing the low skilled and low pay jobs. Even though these jobs were the hardest ones to do they did not care, because they were used to work and earn everything with their hard work and their hands. First Generation Puerto Ricans never complain about school education just for the reason that they were glad to have one; most of the Puerto Ricans at this time were illiterate. But by 1950s the time of the Second generation of Puerto Ricans everything changes, when the kids of the first generation of Puerto Ricans started to attend public school they faced racism at school. They entered a society accustomed to thinking only in black and white. (90) And when they saw those Spanish speaking brown skinned kids they did not know how to classify them. To light skinned Puerto Ricans it was easier to commute in an Anglo community, even thought they were from other country they did not had to deal with the racism as the black Puerto Ricans did. Puerto Ricans group became most notorious and like the Mexican American Puerto Ricans were rapidly stigmatized. New York tabloids took to portraying young Puerto Ricans criminals as savages, despite the clear working class character of the Puerto Ricans Hollywood create the imagine of Puerto Ricans as knife wielders, prone to violence and addicted to drugs. (90) Puerto Ricans reaction to the pressure of being black or white was divided between the 1st and 2nd generation to the first generation they will argue that black blood runs through all Puerto Rican families and for the second generation society drove them to choose a racial identity either purely black or purely white, some of the lightly skinned second generation Puerto Ricans adopt anti-black attitudes hoping that this will become a passage to becoming authentic Americans (92) to those on the Black side, they were part of the black movement lead by Malcolm X and Martin Luther King jr to try to stop they racial discrimination, they fought for what they believed and to win the right to be treated as a regular American.
As the time change society the Puerto Ricans also changed, Puerto Ricans became more close as a group leaving behind the white and black argument know Puerto Ricans know that they are black and white and that does not matter or make them different because at the end they are from Puerto Rico one country.