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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... created and destroyed. In most cases, the reason for this failure is simply that these theories insist on treating power as if it were an object. Power is viewed as an instrument, a structure, a possession, a finite object like gold ...
... created this way makes possible three basic strategies for the less powerful. One response is to agree, tolerate, or simply accept the power they have given others. A second possible response is to regain some or all of that power for ...
... created with the goal of unifying Puerto Ricans on issues critical to their development and survival, and transforming the Puerto Rican community from one that has been invisible at the national level to a community that plays an ...
... created and destroyed in deep, obscure, tangled layers of social action and experience. These processes create structures and institutions. Interests and passions reside there and encode behavior. Efforts to amass power that ignore this ...
... created by passions and interests that one partner becomes stronger while the other becomes weaker. If the dance model of power is true, Puerto Ricans will have less power when they have greater levels of passion and interest in their ...
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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 |