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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... longer want to dance. A final strategy is to gain some power for themselves and against others by increasing the interest ... larger forces, like the racist American capitalist society. The dance model argues that the story of power for ...
... big Puerto Rican populations; and there is a feeling that blacks have ... big story for only a few days; then “it quickly went away” (Hunter and Bainbridge 2005 ... society, could identify only one Latino—the actress Rosie Perez. Actually ...
... large portions of their population that are not working, not interested in getting work, or engaged in economic ... larger capitalist society notices them, observes how they dance, and moves in with hopes of capitalizing on these ...
... society. The result of those projections is that the images may provide or limit real opportunities “to improve ... larger society. As Amelie Oksenberg Rorty has argued, “power and powerlessness are always a function of desire—desire for ...
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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 |