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The term is used to identify Heritage or Ethnicity instead of, or in addition to, the standardized Census categories of white, black, Asian, American Indian or Alaska native, or Hawaii or Pacific Island native. The term Nuyorican is also sometimes used to refer to the Spanish spoken by New York Puerto Ricans. HISTORY OF THE TERM The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' cites this word as evolving slowly through roughly the last third of the 20th Century , with the first cited reference being poet J. Carrero using ''neorriqueño'' in 1964 as a Spanish-language adjective combining ''neoyorquino'' and ''puertorriqueño'', and many other variants occurring along the way, including ''neorican'', ''neoricano'', ''newyorican'', ''Neo-Rican'', ''Neorican'', and ''New Yorrican''. ''Nuyorican'' itself dates at least from 1975 , the date of the first public sessions of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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