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Yet, along with this suddenly heightened sense of Hispanic unity and cultural complementarity, Francisco also began to make note of differences, ways in which the Nuyorican \nposition in the U.S. society diverges from that of his fellow Chicanos. The most obvious of \nthese, in his view, was the closeness between Puerto Ricans and Blacks. Of course Chicanos \nand African Americans have long shared a common cause as victims of racism and \nexploitation and comprise natural allies in political and social movements. Culturally, too, \nthere has been ample interaction, but nothing resembling the intensity and extent of influence between Black and Puerto Rican cultures in New York. El Barrio flows off imperceptibly into Harlem, Williamsburgh into Bedford-Stuyvesant, while, by contrast, sharper lines \nseem to separate East Los Angeles from Watts and other Southwest barrios from their adjacent black neighborhoods. Wherever he looked and listened, Francisco witnessed young \nPuerto Ricans and New York Blacks talking and walking in the same manner, singing and \ndancing with the same style, and often seeming indistinguishable in appearance and action. \nHe heard Nuyorican poetry and salsa and detected more Afro-American language and \nrhythms than anything familiar to him in Chicano expression. He saw the Guardian Angels \nin the subways and Black and Puerto Rican families cohabiting the tenements and housing \nprojects. He heard about the Black and Puerto Rican legislative caucus in Albany and the \nprograms in Black and Puerto Rican studies in the colleges. He even took in the movie \n"Wild Style" and was amazed at the integral participation of both groups in forms of contemporary street art and performance like graffiti, rap music and break dancing.
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