... have greater opportunities to do so. This competition has led the minorities living in such bad neighborhoods, such as the streets of Spanish Harlem, to search for respect and dignity while the American Society is doing the opposite, segregating and separating them from the rest ... are nests of the narcotics, thieving, stealing, cheating and every conceivable kind of law breaking" (Bourgois, 48). Population of the so-called "Spanish Harlem" is mostly Hispanic, specifically Puerto Ricans who have emigrated from Puerto Rico throughout the 1900s. Puerto Rico was a poor island since the d...

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