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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... (ibid., 11). Without desires, needs, or wants, however, there is nothing to motivate us, set us in motion, or give meaning and importance to what we do. When we lack desires, needs, and wants, others have no chance of gaining power over ...
... (ibid.). The weak can become stronger, thus, by reducing or denying the passion and interests they have in others, by a “renunciation of desire” (Irvine 2006, 186). Puerto Ricans kept their culture alive in the United States and demand ...
... (ibid.). The Foundations of Social Power as Dance The theory of power as dance developed in this study has its roots in the “social power” movement that had brief popularity in sociology during the early 1960s and that was fueled by the ...
... (ibid., 19). What's missing is an explanation about what is in the agent's habitus and in the social fields that produces more of the same or something different. The reproduction of social structures or their modification, in Bourdieu's ...
... (ibid.). Is habitus always the effect of social structures, however? How long does the effect last? The answer can't be known. The processes are, in fact, too dialectical. Bourdieu admits as much when he states that it's too hard to ...
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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 |