Based on the historical research, this chapter analyses the Emergence of a Portuguese Colony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Early Twentieth Century. A relatively unknown description of the working class neighborhood from East Cambridge exemplifies the diversity of the roles played by Portuguese migrants to New England provides a privileged portrait of the relationship between work, residence, and urban ethnicity..

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Portuguese Americans,Cambridge MA,Urban history,Early 20th century,Urban community,Working class neighborhood,Ethnicity

• History and Archeology - Humanities
• Anthropology - Social Sciences

This publication is an output of the following project(s):

• Ethnic heritage in the shadows: a collaborative ethnography of Azorean American resilience in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, USA