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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... argues, is not object but movement. It is not fixed but dynamic. It is not dead but alive. It is always either building up or breaking down. Power is always a movement initiated not by solitary individuals but between couples, groups ...
... argues for the idea that power emerges, instead, from the “dance” between agents driven by interests and passions to engage and put themselves into another's hands. We know that Puerto Ricans today do not make an enduring impact on the ...
... victims, objects, and pawns of larger forces, like the racist American capitalist society. The dance model argues that the story of power for Puerto Ricans has more to do with dancing than carnage. This means that 6 Introduction.
... argue that the 1950 attempted assassination of President Truman by Puerto Rican nationalists was “gigantic news—for about a week” only (3). The attempted assassination was a big story for only a few days; then “it quickly went away ...
... argument that Puerto Rican poverty and powerlessness spring from the unintended consequences of everyday actions is not a pessimistic view of the Puerto Rican potential for power. It is, actually, a recognition of the reality that 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 |