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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... influence cross each other and originate in both partners. This interaction resembles a kind of social dance, with an ebb and flow of influence that is more mutual than it might appear. My students can ruin my evenings as much as I can ...
... influence and manipulate the self-interest of others (see Sanchez 1994). The reason is that these predictions assume, with many other theoretical approaches, that power is thing-like, something that can be amassed by pure addition ...
... influence over their lives. The key to power, then, lies not in the “things” themselves but in the degree to which people need, want, and desire them. It is that intersection of desires and needs for particular “values” (like money but ...
... influence us, to change us, even if only temporarily. That's power. This idea of power is brought beautifully to life in Julia Alvarez's fictionalized account of a young Dominican woman's dance with the Dominican dictator Trujillo from ...
... influence than it had 10 years ago” (Chavez 1986). Indeed, the temptation is to conclude that Puerto Ricans, as Iris Marion Young has observed in another context, have become so powerless because they “have little or no work autonomy ...
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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 |