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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A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States José Ramón Sánchez. Contents. Acknowledgments Introduction 1 1 Dance: A Theory of Power The Cigar Makers' Strike: An Economic Power Goes Up in Smoke, 1919 to 1945 The Rise of ...
... Puerto Ricans were and are “consumed” by the monster, this is the case not ... Rican attempts to satisfy their own needs and desires placed them in the ... cigar workers who went on strike in 1919 and brought the tobacco industry in New ...
... cigar maker's strike, was a brash and briefly successful attempt by a young moments when Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rican community to enhance its power. A second critical moment was the 1949 creation of the Mayor's Committee for Puerto Rican ...
... Puerto Rican community to shape the way other groups and society as a whole think, act, and feel. The concept of ... cigar maker's strike, one of three historical “dramas,” signaled the first major challenge to the structural position that ...
... Rican relationship to power also shifted in historical, temporal, and spatial emphases among the economic, political, and cultural realms. Puerto Ricans ... Cigar Makers' Strike An Economic Power Goes Up in 52 Dance: A Theory of Power.
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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 |