Puerto Rican grandmothers share and relive their memorias

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The memorias of Puerto Rican grandmothers can be a valuable source for understanding how they see themselves as members of a community, and how they characterize what constitutes the Puerto Rican community in the diaspora. This paper describes the ways in which a group of elderly Puerto Rican women relived their memories as they participated in an oral history project. The project, Project Memorias, sought to elicit their memories in order to understand aspects of Puerto Rican history and culture and their migration experiences. The article presents the voices of the women as they reminisced about their lives and that of their families in Puerto Rico, their transition to the Chicago area, and the changes they see as they observe the community around them.

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Inglés The memorias of Puerto Rican grandmothers can be a valuable source for understanding how they see themselves as members of a community, and how they characterize what constitutes the Puerto Rican community in the diaspora. This paper describes the ways in which a group of elderly Puerto Rican women relived their memories as they participated in an oral history project. The project, Project Memorias, sought to elicit their memories in order to understand aspects of Puerto Rican history and culture and their migration experiences. The article presents the voices of the women as they reminisced about their lives and that of their families in Puerto Rico, their transition to the Chicago area, and the changes they see as they observe the community around them.