MILLS, C. WRIGHT, CLARENCE SENIOR, and ROSE KOHN GOLDSEN. The Puerto Rican Journey: New York's Newest Migrants. Pp. xi, 238. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. $3.00
| Author | George E. Simpson |
| Published date | 01 March 1951 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271625127400183 |
| Date | 01 March 1951 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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The
discussion
of
the
hospital
service
plans,
the
prepaid
medical
care
plans,
and
the
impact
of
commercial
insurance
makes
interesting
reading.
The
text
is
quite
easy
to
read
and
careful
in
its
approach,
and
it
maintains
an
objective
viewpoint.
A
study
and
occasional
review
of
this
book
are
to
be
encouraged.
P. F.
LUCCHESI,
M.D.,
M.P.H.
Philadelphia
General
Hospital
KLEES,
FREDRIC.
The
Pennsylvania
Dutch.
Pp.
ix,
451.
New
York:
The
Macmillan
Company,
1950.
$5.00.
There
is
more
about
the
Pennsylvania
Dutch
in
The
Pennsylvania
Dutch
by
Fredric
Klees
(The
Macmillan
Company,
New
York,
1950)
than
in
any
book
pub-
lished
about
us.
It
is
an
omnium
gatherum
of
nearly
everything
ever
put
in
print
about
the
Dutch
country,
its
European
back-
ground,
its
past,
its
religious
groups,
the
avocations
of
its
people,
their
folk
art
and
folkways.
It
is
written
by
one
to
the
manor
born,
a
Berks
County
man
who
strives
hard
to
be
just
to
the
other
Dutch
counties,
but
who
cannot
believe
any
other
countryside
is
comparable
to
Berks.
He
is
a
Pennsylvania
Dutchman,
not
a
Penn-
sylvania
German,
that
term
ignorantly
ap-
plied
to
us
by
pedants
who
did
not
know
that
the
term
Dutch
was
used
in
English
until
the
Civil
War
to
designate
High
Dutch
as
well
as
Low
Dutch.
The
heart
of
Fredric
Klees
is
in
the
right
place,
but
he
is
unduly
concerned
about
&dquo;The
States&dquo;
and
the
world
not
&dquo;getting
us
straight.&dquo;
There
is
more
knowledge
of
us
everywhere
than
he
thinks
after
the
eighty
years
writing
about
us
that
began
in
1869
with
Phoebe
Earle
Gibbon’s
articles
in
The
Atlantic
Monthly.
His
title
adds
but
a
&dquo;the&dquo;
to
the
title
of
the
book
she
based
on
those
articles,
her
Pennsylvania
Dutch
(1873).
He
has
not
taken
to
heart
her
part
in
making
us
known.
There
was
much
writing
about
us,
from
Richard
Frame’s
A
Short
Description
of
Pennsylvania
on
through
Gabriel
Thomas
and
Benjamin
Rush
and
Cobbett,
but
it
was
this
New
England
woman
married
to
a
Lancaster
County
Quaker
who
began
the
concern
with
us
that
prevails
today.
She
knew
most
about
&dquo;the
plain
people,&dquo;
Mennonites,
Amish
and
Dunkards,
who,
Mr.
Klees
thinks,
have
been
unduly
emphasized.
Mr.
Klees
finds
three
cultures
among
us:
a
culture
of
the
Lutherans
and
the
Re-
formed,
a
&dquo;church
culture&dquo;;
a
culture
of
the
Moravians;
and
a
culture
of
&dquo;the
plain
people,&dquo;
Mennonites,
Amish
and
Dunkards.
There
is
always
present
in
his
writing
a
realization
of
our
background
in
southeast-
ern
Pennsylvania,
that
we
are
basically
country
folk,
the
first
farmer
in
&dquo;The
States.&dquo;
There
are
good
stories
galore
scattered
through
the
pages,
but
it is
the
solid
factual
information
he
has
garnered
that
makes
his
book
valuable.
Who
will
may
find in
it
all
that
is
known
of
us,
from
hexerei
to
our
distinction
in
medicine
and
music,
but
he
will
have
to
hunt
it
out
with-
.
out
the
help
of
an
index.
That
omission
materially
lessens
the
value
of
The
Penn-
sylvania
Dutch
as
a
book
of
reference,
which
is
destined
to
be
its
greatest
value.
CORNELIUS
WEYGANDT
University
of
Pennsylvania
MILLS,
C.
WRIGHT,
CLARENCE
SENIOR,
and
ROSE
KOHN
GOLDSEN.
The
Puerto
Rican
Journey:
New
York’s
Newest
Migrants.
Pp. xi, 238.
New
York:
Harper &
Broth-
ers,
1950.
$3.00.
In
many
ways
this
study
is
a
model
of
modern
sociological
research.
The
scien-
tific
problem
was
carefully
defined,
and
the
investigation
was
meticulously
carried
out
by
a
competent
staff
of
more
than
forty
persons.
Five
thousand
Puerto
Ricans
in
Spanish
Harlem
and
Morrisania,
New
York
City,
are
represented
in
the
1,113
inter-
views
conducted
during
the
study.
The
project,
begun
in
September
1947
and
com-
pleted
in
1949,
was
financed
by
the
Puerto
Rican
government.
’
The
typical
Puerto
Rican
migrant
is
24,
has
completed
sixth
grade,
and
comes
from
an
urban
area.
About
60
per
cent
of
the
migrants
are
females,
70
per
cent
are
mar-
ried,
and,
by
mainland
standards,
two-thirds
are
colored.
Most
of
the
migrants
are
without
much
skill,
and
three-fifths
of
them
have
arrived
in
New
York
with
very
little
skill
in
the
English
language.
All
of
these
newcomers
&dquo;enter
a
society
where
the
op-
portunities
for
advancement
seem
increas-
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