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Elementary and middle school in the Bronx: All I can say about that was that the school was mostly hispanic and african american. Dominicans were the largest group, then Afram, followed by Puerto Ricans. There was tension between the really hick Dominican class and the African American/Dominican-York/ Nuyorican class. However, my class, which was honors, was universally picked on by the hicks and the ghetto kids. So I guess that academic level, followed by nationality, where some of the causes of conflicts.

My High School was in Queens, NYC. We saw queens as a step-up from the utter chaos and constant warfare that plagued all Bronx high schools. No way in hell was I going to a Bronx HS. In Queens, everyone, and I mean everyone was represented. If I had to pick the largest group, I'd say Colombians, Ecuadorians, Dominicans, Mexicans, where the largest Hispanic groups in that order. It felt strange to me not being the dominant group. All the other Latinos would make fun of our accent. I stuck with the Dominicans, but usually Hispanics hung out together (but your own country first.) It was segregated. African Americans kept to their own as well.

There was a time in the Bronx, that in a certain school, if you were Dominican, you would get beaten up every day by the African Americans. Thank god that school was closed. It will always live in infamy.

Nowadays, in Dominican run school (which are many) they are the ones controlling and beating up African Americans and other groups. They have the numbers now, different from say 1997, when there where more Aframs and less Dominicans in the Bronx than there is now.