Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United StatesNYU Press, 01/03/2007 - 278 من الصفحات Where does power come from? Why does it sometimes disappear? How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impoverished, lose social influence, and become marginal to the rest of society? How do they turn things around, increase their wealth, and become better able to successfully influence and defend themselves? |
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... Bourdieu, and the postmodern theories of Baudrillard and Foucault. The dance model of power presented here shares some elements of those theories. Power, for instance, appears as a relational phenomenon in many postmodern theories, and ...
... is a relational phenomenon (Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992). It points to the complex interaction between agents in a social relation and to the social interests, habits, and passions that drive those 22 Dance: A Theory of Power.
... Bourdieu argues, “social agents are determined to the extent that they determine themselves” (Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992, 136). There is no ontological alternative to social agents, and their relations with each other, as a source of ...
... Bourdieu claims, however, given by social structures. Even if social agents are “socialized,” “trained,” or “manipulated” into desiring and pursuing certain values, they must still recognize what they value, locate that value in others ...
... Bourdieu's terms, “arbitrarily defined populations,” are able to gain power on occasion (Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992, 229). The Missing Element in Contemporary Theories of Power As the examples above showed, agents give others power by ...
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The Rise of Radicalism World War II to | 96 |
Puerto Rican Marginalization | 129 |
The Young Lords the Media and Cultural Estrangement | 171 |
Conclusion | 210 |
Notes | 253 |
Bibliography | 265 |
Index | 275 |