Pecha Kucha Project

The speaker discusses their Pecha Kucha project, which aims to explore the generational wealth and employment trends of Puerto Rican families in Worcester County. They explain that Puerto Rican migrants came to the mainland US in the 1920s-1950s due to natural disasters and other events. The speaker chose specific data visualizations to illustrate their point, including employment records and average household incomes. They acknowledge the limitations of their chosen variables and express their hope to further understand cultural differences and wage gaps in future research. Overall, the speaker believes their project helps shed light on Puerto Rican experiences and showcases their resilience and success. Welcome, the amazing people of Worcester County, coming to you live by Gideon Vasquez. Here is my interpretation of the Petra Kucha Project. I hope you'll enjoy. I wanted to solve two questions for today. One being how much generational wealth do Puerto Rican families make or have? And for number two, what are the employment trends within a county? I believe this will be able to illustrate my point the best. You will see it later. Number three, Puerto Rican migrants began to show up to the mainland during the 1920s through the 1950s, mostly due to how natural disasters swept through Puerto Rico during those times, World War II, the Great Depression, and much more. Why I wanted to learn this topic was due to the limited information about this topic along with my own general curiosity, as I wanted to be able to figure this out, given with the multiple tools that I was providing through this class, thank you all very much. Experts approached my topic with explaining the various push and pull factors such as opportunity of better living, a second chance, political asylum, and a restart of life. Here I picked places to illustrate what I'm looking at and why I wanted to look at it. Number six, ethnic transformations in late 20th century Florida and by Mauro Ramon along with another primary source of Puerto Rican migration to the U.S. done by Samantha Gibson shows in details why Puerto Rican families migrated to America. They discussed how and why Americans or Puerto Ricans came to America. The ACS variables I had chosen were employment records, ESR, and ancestry for my first data visualization, and for my second visualization, decade of entry, and the average of household incomes, and I believe this will be able to help me the best. The first data visualization, I know the consensus about pie charts, yet I believe it shows my case firstly as it does include show employment in Beaver County. Here you're able to witness 6.2% of Puerto Rican members are able to work while 93.3% are non-Puerto Ricans. How does it help is to help ground all the research that I've found and to show my work to you all as a way to help you all understand what's going on. The second data visualization is the average household income of Puerto Rican families versus other Latino families in Beaver County. Here my graphs go from 1950 all the way to 1910 as that was the latest information it was able to give me, and they illustrate 1935 and 1945, and the way it helps is to help further ground my points and help me further understand what is going on. Here is some cute little GIF and a cute little thing I made. Hope you all like that. The way this helps is due to how it illustrates all the research that I have picked and found all throughout this as it helps us understand the generation of wealth while also the employment trend that is found within a county known for its migrants. The limitation of my ACS variables is that it was a problem having to visualize everything. Due to the wide span of numbers and how long everything was, it became so much harder to make it accurate and very taught on the best that I possibly could make. The insight that I was given was how much we didn't understand about our world and how much I hope this was able to help out in wanting to understand more. My conclusions on how this research is important is to understand that one culture, generation of wealth, is a way of showing how much they've gone through, and this is a testament of how well they've been doing and how amazing they have done. My ideas for future historical research is wanting to look at historical grasp and the wage gap that is depicted between all different cultures and different minorities such as white, black, African American, Asian, Hispanic, and Latinos. I hope you all enjoy my Pecha Kucha project.