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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... industry in New York City to a halt. They found themselves out of work a few short years later, however, when cigar manufacturers switched to machines and reduced their dependence on cigar makers. Despite such disappointment, Puerto ...
... industry is one example. Then, there were times when dancing did bring Puerto Ricans more power. But that power often proved fleeting or temporary. An example is the economic and political interest by New York City business and ...
... industrial,” or “capitalist.” Social agents play in the various fields of social life, sometimes modify them, and are in turn changed by those fields. In this way, Bourdieu allows for the creative, unpredictable nature of social life ...
... industry. The structural changes that occurred varied by social dimension. The political and cultural impact of that 1919 strike, for example, came later than the economic. The key is that the focus on such transitional, dramatic ...
... Labor became increasingly organized along industrial rather than craft lines. Puerto Rican cigar makers appeared to be taken by surprise by all of this. They refused to believe that “anything mechanical 54 The Cigar Makers' Strike.
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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 |