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· More Puerto Ricans live in the US (4.6 mln, 9% of the US Hispanic population)
than in Puerto Rico (3.8 mln)
· Mostly in New York and New Jersey
· In New York esp. in East Harlem, South Bronx, Brooklyn
*Cubans = Indians almost entirely eliminated
· White population mostly of Spanish descent
· Black Africans first brought to Cuba in 1522 to work on sugar plantations
· 2002 census whites 65%, blacks 25%, mulattoes 10%
*1961 President Dwight Eisenhower broke diplomatic relations with Cuba
· 1962 the Kennedy administration imposed an embargo, breaking all economic,
financial and commercial relations
*Cuban Americans = 1.8 mln (2010) 0.6% of the US population
· The third-largest Hispanic group in the US
· Many viewed their stay in America as temporary
· Miami 65% Hispanics of any race
*Why they tend to be better than other Hispanic Americans? =
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