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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... dance partner in life and on the dance floor. After all these years, you still move me. I thank my children for pushing me to grow up and for keeping me young. Leina, I marvel at your quiet introspection, your calm, and your creativity ...
... dance floor, whether peopled by dictators or high school students, is fraught with lessons in power. We hope and try to engage others who can satisfy some of our needs and desires. We look, admire, envy, covet, and perhaps even believe ...
... dance on a “dance floor” and with “dance steps” that were “written by usually nameless others, past, present, or future”—that is, how eager were they to act within existing social structures (Berger 1995, 4)? The general answer to these ...
... dance to its rhythms and help to keep the whole thing going. It's not their dance floor or music, however. They belong to those who set things in motion in earlier times and to those who are given authority to keep them going in the ...
... Dancers gently push and pull each other across the dance floor. At times, they appear almost as one being. At other times, a partner makes radical independent movements that are only possible because of the connection of one to 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 |