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Puerto Rican Americans  

Definition

  • Puerto Rican Americans are the second-largest Hispanic group in the United States (following Mexican Americans); they constitute approximately 10% of the Hispanic population and 1% of the total population in the United States. In a legal sense, Puerto Ricans in the United States are migrants, American citizens coming from a U.S. territory. [Source: Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology; Puerto Rican Americans]

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