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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... identity to the urban landscape by rescu- ing images, rescatando imagines, by alluding to the power of places every- body recognizes, feels good about, and can identity with” (Aponte-Pares 1994,14). In this way, Puerto Ricans continue ...
... identity, others toward reducing the status of other participants, and still others to changing the definition of the situation, or withdrawing from the social field.”21 Not dancing is an act of agency—a symbolic and emotional one ...
... identity and competition that had come to characterize late- twentieth-century America. But though they “spoke” this new language with some proficiency, they spoke to others in America who still didn't hear them. They had dressed for ...
... identity for the Puerto Rican community as a militant and internationalist group. Ironi- cally, the new political and cultural organizations cigar makers helped to create actually accelerated the shift away from a working-class and 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 |