Mainland Puerto Rican male identity: A grounded theory derived from poetry.

Title: Mainland Puerto Rican male identity: A grounded theory derived from poetry.
Identifier: AAI9431367
identifier: 9431367
Creator: Holman, Warren Dana.
Contributor: Adviser: Irwin Epstein
Date: 1994
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Social Work
Abstract: This study attempted to understand mainland Puerto Rican male identity through an analysis of selected mainland Puerto Rican poetry written between 1969 and the present. Poems that addressed the issue of identity were examined through the constant comparison technique of grounded theory methodology. Two interdependent, core categories of mainland male Puerto Rican identity emerged from the analysis of the poems--an oppressed identity and an ethnocultural identity. In addition, a third category, an existential identity, or searching for identity, was expressed by an appreciable number of the poets. These three categories of identity were integrated into a grounded theory statement of mainland Puerto Rican male identity, which was compared with existing theories of that identity. Implications for social work theory building, practice, and education were discussed.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: D.S.W.

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