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Puerto Rican and Cuban Catholics in the U.S., 1900-1965. Edited by Jay P. Dolan and Jaime R. Vidal.
The Notre Dame History of Hispanic Catholics in the U.S., Volume Two.
Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 1994. Pp. vii, 259. $24.95.)
The book consists of two long essays, "Citizens Yet Strangers: The Puerto Rican Experience: by Jaime R. Vidal, and "Cuban Catholics in the United States", by Lisandro Perez. The joint publication of these two essays offers the opportunity to compare the formation and history of these Catholic communities in this country. The initial contrast is striking: The twentieth-century Catholic Cuban community derives its strength from the post-1960 migration of professionals and business people, who came to Miami with their priests and nuns and the full assistance of the diocese. The postwar Puerto Rican migration of rural workers and the families resulted in the growth of communities In the Northeast, especially in New York, without the help of Puerto Rican priests and religious, and with the imposition of the local territorial parish, with...