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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... capitalists. The point is that these advan- tages suggest that the problems of the poor exist not just because of the decisions the poor have made. The problem for the poor is that the social roles and interests they move in are not ...
... capitalist soci- ety, it is labor that is realized through capital. As Marx stated in the Com- munist Manifesto, “in ... capitalism. The dance model extends the dialectic. It explains how and why one party or class appears to gain ...
... capitalist societies, usually desire money, but not always. Guns can force some people to do what they otherwise would not, but not always. There are people who are not easily stopped by guns. These people are often heralded for their ...
... capitalist . " Social agents play in the various fields of social life , sometimes modify them , and are in turn changed by those fields . In this way , Bourdieu al- lows for the creative , unpredictable nature of social life while ...
... Capitalists, in this sense, have an interest in making profit because without it they cease being capitalists. It is interests, both long-term and short-term, that shape what social agents do and, thus, what power they have. Interests ...
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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 |