Milagros Ricourt and Ruby Dante heavily focused on Corona in Introduction: The Emergence of Latino Panethnicity. The authors discussed that while Corona is now predominately filled with Latin American immigrants, it wasn’t always that way. Dating back to the 1950s, Corona was made up of almost 43,000 whites and 5,000 blacks. Each year, the number of whites drastically decreased while blacks increased (up until Latin Americans began to migrate to Corona, which at that time the number of blacks then decreased.) White flight clearly impacted the Corona neighborhood and molded it into the predominately Latino neighborhood it is today. But while Corona is majority Latino, there is no specific group of Latinos that dominate the area. Between Dominicans, Columbians, Puerto Ricans, Ecuadorians, Cubans, Mexicans, Peruvians, Salvadorians, Hondurans and Panamanians, not any of these ethnicities have an absolute majority. While there isn’t a perfect divide between the groups, each group has their own nook in the community.

While I was reading Introducing Corona, I was very intrigued reading the schedule that was laid out. There was a strong image of people from all different countries of the world standing on the same platform, waiting for the same 7 train. All of these people had their own stories, backgrounds and beliefs but in that moment, all of them had the same goal: to get to on the train and head into Manhattan for work. Reading this passage gave me an almost empty feeling because thinking that there are people who take the same trains for years, that will never actually interact. While they may see and recognize one another, they see that they are not the same ethnicity and therefore do not engage with each other. It is the same as the mothers who go and pick up their kids from school. While they wait with the same individuals everyday, the Latin Americans, Indians and Chinese women all stand separately. The divide between races go beyond the mother countries and translates even in Queens, New York.