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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... fact a dance.3 The deficiencies of the thing-like approach to power become clear in popular language, current debates, and history. During the last fifteen years, for example, analysts and pundits have made extravagant claims about the ...
... fact, being small in numbers, having little money, and controlling few votes did not prevent Puerto Ricans from gaining power during the early part of the twentieth century. That story of a powerful, yet small Puerto Rican community in ...
... fact succeed, in general, by accident. By illuminating those deep layers with the dance model of power, we gain a better understanding of how Puerto Ricans became both less and more powerful as well as what needs to Introduction 11.
... fact, as Dennis Wrong has argued, “the power of the loved one over the lover in a passionate, 'romantic' love-relationship represents the most narrowly extensive and highly individualized form of power relation” (1993, 16). The loved ...
... fact that they are the official government representatives for districts or states. Students of American government, however, have found recently that the power of elected officials in Congress often pales beside the power of 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 |