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the Puerto Rican communities and presence in New York City, which, more or less, focused on the political and cultural adjustment of this rapidly increasing population demographic (Lopez 62). The
majority of these studies proposed strategies and recommendations that were aimed at facilitating the goal of assimilation into the American mainstream (Lopez 62). These studies, as a whole, were
uniformly lacking in any meaningful analysis of the "long-term, historically rooted, economic repercussions of colonialism and discrimination," and focused on what the social scientists perceived as the "inherent problems" of
these communities (Lopez 62). This perspective, i.e., Puerto Ricans as a people who could be characterized as people with "inherent problems" gained credibility with the publication of books such as
Glazer and Moynihan 1963 Beyond the Melting Pot, which argued that Puerto Ricans were incapable of assimilation (Lopez 62). As this suggests, the mainstream view of American culture toward
Puerto Rico has long been nuanced by the perspective of that is inherent to the dominating social power over the colonial possession, interpreting conditions in terms of the deficits of
the conquered people rather than in terms of the political and economic forces imposed by the dominating power. In short, there was a tendency to see the "Great Migration" of
the 1950s/60s, that is, the influx of Puerto Ricans into the continental U.S. that occurred during these decades in terms of the pressure that this influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants placed
on local resources in the cities, such as New York, which received them, rather than to acknowledge the full complexity of the social forces that compelled these people to leave
their homes. By addressing these forces and demonstrating the complexities of immigrant experience, Puerto Rican studies shed insight into these factors and help to fashion more equitable social
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