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Neorican
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Neo-Rican neo-Rican
English
Alternative forms
en Neo-Rican neo-Rican
Etymology
From en neo- Puerto Rican<alt:(Puerto) Rican>, modeled after en es neorriqueño, itself a es neoyorquino New Yorker puertorriqueño Puerto Rican 1 1.
Pronunciation
en /ˌniː.əʊˈɹiː.kən/ RP
en /ˌni.oʊˈɹi.kən/ GA
en iːkən 4
Adjective
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Of or relating to natives or inhabitants of the mainland United States (especially New York) who are of Puerto Rican descent.
21 May 1972 w:Ruth Gruber There Are Few Independentistas In Puerto Rico, But— https://web.archive.org/web/20210227062219/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/21/archives/there-are-few-independentistas-in-puerto-rico-but-independentistas.html And, while New York's school system struggles with the problem of making the Puerto Rican child truly bilingual, the island's schools have the problem in reverse: 20,000 Neorican youngsters are trying to learn Spanish.
7 October 1973 The Puerto Ricans https://web.archive.org/web/20200804124615/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/07/archives/the-puerto-ricans-a-documentary-history-kal-wagenheim-with-olga.html “The Puerto Rican Papers” has a saving grace. It is the first articulate statement, in book form, of a sector of the Neorican mentality: the proindependence, New York‐born militants.
en 1993 Frances Rivera Aparicio From Ethnicity to Multiculturalism: An Historical Overview of Puerto Rican Literature in the United States Francisco Lomelí Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art Houston, Tex. w:Arte Público Press 36 https://archive.org/details/handbookofhispan00lome/page/36/mode/1up 1 1-55885-074-0 Like other contemporary Neorican authors, they are internationalizing their experiences of oppression and historical invisibility.
en 2005 José Manuel Rodeiro Aesthetics w:Ilan Stavans; w:Harold Augenbraum Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States !1 (1492 – Cuban Missile Crisis) Danbury, Conn. Grolier Academic Reference 34 https://archive.org/details/encyclopedialati01stav/page/34/mode/1up 2 0-7172-5816-5 Examples of hybridization are the poetry of Martin Espada, which combines neosurrealism with political activism, and the Neorican poetry of Miguel Algarin, Pedro Pietri, and Pedro Adorno.
Hyponyms
en Nuyorican
Noun
A native or inhabitant of the mainland United States (especially New York) who is of Puerto Rican descent.
Hyponyms
en Nuyorican
Anagrams
en aceinnor Creonian acronine
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