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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... Rico itself.5 Only about 60 percent of U.S. Puerto Ricans have graduated from high school. This rate is not only lower than that of non-Latino whites (85 percent); it is lower than that of non-Latino blacks (at 73 percent). The same ...
... Rico. They use these casitas along with the lot, over the last thirty years, as a social and cultural gathering place in the midst of the world capitalist city of New York but outside it. Puerto Ricans build casitas to reclaim abandoned ...
... Rico, Jesus Colon used to hear a clear, strong voice coming from a big factory down the street. The voice was that of “El Lector,” or the reader. His job was to read from the works of Zola, Balzac, Hugo, or Marx to the rows of cigar ...
... Puerto Ricans interested” (184). Puerto Ricans also had considerable success in getting Congress to listen to their calls to resolve the colonial status of Puerto Rico or to address other foreign policy The Cigar Makers' Strike 55.
... Rico or to address other foreign policy issues. In one example, Bernardo Vega mentions a successful effort by the Alianza Obrera in the late 1920s to get Congressman Fiorello La Guardia to denounce American intervention in Nicaragua ...
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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 |