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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... actions is not a pessimistic view of the Puerto Rican potential for power. It is, actually, a recognition of the reality that power is created and destroyed in deep, obscure, tangled layers of social action and experience. These ...
... actions. Power is created and lost in processes that look, thus, a lot like dance. There are alternative and good ways of depicting and explaining power. The dance model is better than the models based on chess, game theory, or the ...
... actions. As Richard Schmitt argued, “power is not owned by individuals but is rather a collective product” (1995, 153). Dance reminds us that power is an unstable combination of structure and energy between passionate, interested ...
... actions of all social agents. Social interests, habit, and passions set certain social agents and relations in motion or simply keep them going. The process is complex, a kind of dance. Yet, it is these interests that make possible ...
... actions against weapons, against greater coercive force, indicate that they are not afraid to get hurt or die or simply that they value other things (national defense, religious glory, etc.) more. By rejecting the threat posed by the ...
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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 |