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 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 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 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, 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 as economic ones in that regard. Economic decisions are often shaped by cultural perceptions (as when employers don't hire from particular groups because they are perceived to be lazy). Political advances are often made ...
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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 |