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Cordeiro, Graça Índias (2017). Neither slum nor élite suburb. The ‘emergence’ of a Portuguese colony in Cambridge, MA, in the early 20th century. Migration and Millwork: Portuguese Communities in industrial New England.

M. D. Cordeiro,  "Neither slum nor élite suburb. The ‘emergence’ of a Portuguese colony in Cambridge, MA, in the early 20th century", in Migration and Millwork: Portuguese Communities in industrial New England, Boston, 2017

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	author = "Cordeiro, Graça Índias",
	title = "Neither slum nor élite suburb. The ‘emergence’ of a Portuguese colony in Cambridge, MA, in the early 20th century",
	year = "2017",
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AB  - The zone of emergence. Observations of the Lower Middle and Upper Working Class Communities in Boston is a manuscript written by a group of ‘settlement sociologists’ along 1904-1915 only published in 1962 by the Joint Center of Urban Studies MIT/Harvard. Concerned on the life of working class and lower-middle-class districts in Boston area, and «giving a systematic coverage of (such) quarters which are neither slum nor elite suburb» (Sam Bass Warner foreword, 2nd edition, 1969) this is an odd text among the series dedicated to slum life and settlement house movement which were published between 1898 and 1922 by these group of researchers/activists. 
East Cambridge is one of the six more prosperous neighborhoods chosen to a systematic analysis for representing the so-called «zone of emergence».  Portuguese, Irish, Polish and Armenians were the most preeminent ethnic-white immigrants living there attracted to this industrial district, coming from other parts of the metropolis or directly from homeland. In this text, representations of the Portuguese ‘colony’ contrasts  strikingly with Portuguese images later presenting by some anthropological studies as Two Portuguese Communities in New England (Donald Tafts, 1923), “Portuguese Enclaves: The Invisible Minority” (Estellie Smith 1974) or From Working Daugthers to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community (1986, Louise Lamphere). 
Inspired by this almost unknown report on East Cambridge neighborhood (followed by others, as The Portuguese. Ethnic Minorities in Cambridge, James Ito-Adler, 1972) we want to stress some interconnected aspects that emerged from the observation of this almost “region incognitae”, which could help us to have a more accurate perspective of the hidden role played by Portuguese immigrants in the rising of a middle class urban culture through 20th century – and to find out why Portuguese are almost eradicated from cutting edge discussions on urban life & ethnicity performed by mainstream American social sciences.  

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