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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... important, she taught me the only lesson I needed to survive and advance in this world. She never let our desperation and poverty get in the way of dreaming and striving for something better, even if it was only another apartment in the ...
... important, she taught me the only lesson I needed to survive and advance in this world. She never let our desperation and poverty get in the way of dreaming and striving for something better, even if it was only another apartment in the ...
الصفحة viii
... important and critical to my thinking, even if I didn't always follow your advice. More important, these intellectual disagreements never got in the way of a friendship that has been so critical to my development as a person and to the ...
... important and critical to my thinking, even if I didn't always follow your advice. More important, these intellectual disagreements never got in the way of a friendship that has been so critical to my development as a person and to the ...
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... important ideas about power I discovered in the classroom. The recent tradition in political science has been to simply ignore the basic question of where power comes from and how it disappears because these questions are just not ...
... important ideas about power I discovered in the classroom. The recent tradition in political science has been to simply ignore the basic question of where power comes from and how it disappears because these questions are just not ...
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... important observation is that power can only come from dancing, by engaging others, by getting others to seek and value Puerto Ricans. That, in general, is why Puerto Ricans continued to move, though in the long run doing so made them ...
... important observation is that power can only come from dancing, by engaging others, by getting others to seek and value Puerto Ricans. That, in general, is why Puerto Ricans continued to move, though in the long run doing so made them ...
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... important, in some ways, is the question of Puerto Rican visibility. For the general public, Puerto Ricans are an invisible and weak community. Nicholas Lemann writes in The Atlantic Monthly that “black politicians are more powerful ...
... important, in some ways, is the question of Puerto Rican visibility. For the general public, Puerto Ricans are an invisible and weak community. Nicholas Lemann writes in The Atlantic Monthly that “black politicians are more powerful ...
المحتوى
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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 |
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الصفحة 32 - Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
الصفحة 20 - ... a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
الصفحة 43 - To say that the Interests of capital and those of the workers are one and the same is only to say that capital and wage labour are two sides of one and the same relation. The one conditions the other, just as usurer and squanderer condition each other. As long as the wage-worker is a wage-worker his lot depends upon capital. That is the much-vaunted community of interests between worker and capitalist.
الصفحة 210 - Like all big cities, it consisted of irregularity, change, sliding forward, not keeping in step, collisions of things and affairs, and fathomless points of silence in between, of paved ways and wilderness, of one great rhythmic throb and the perpetual discord and dislocation of all opposing rhythms, and as a whole resembled a seething, bubbling fluid in a vessel consisting of the solid material of buildings, laws, regulations, and historical traditions.
الصفحة 19 - The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting.
الصفحة 84 - For recent migrants, the most important and most desirable life goals and adaptations in New York are: working hard and being a "good" worker; valuing formal education and schooling; learning English while not forgetting how to speak Spanish; cultivating the desire to "progress...
الصفحة 121 - There will be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle to-day...
الصفحة 20 - In proportion as the bourgeoisie, ie, capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed...
الصفحة 9 - ... situated so that they must take orders and rarely have the right to give them. Powerlessness also designates a position in the division of labor and the concomitant social position that allows persons little opportunity to develop and exercise skills. The powerless have little or no work autonomy, exercise little creativity or judgment in their work, have no technical expertise or authority, express themselves awkwardly, especially in public or bureaucratic settings, and do not command respect.