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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... minority poverty and helplessness. Many conservative approaches are quick to blame poverty on the poor themselves. They accuse the poor of making bad choices, being lazy, or possessing the wrong moral values. Conservatives claim that ...
... minority communities. The weak can also tip power toward themselves by a total rejection of the values controlled by those on top, by becoming free of their own apparently insatiable desires, by “either nihilistic, inventive destruction ...
... minority groups, like Puerto Ricans, have large portions of their population that are not working, not interested in getting work, or engaged in economic activities that are either illegal or outside regular capitalist market processes ...
... minority. Explaining these changes is a historical and interpretative research task. The goal is to understand not just what Puerto Ricans did. The need is to understand the subjective and real meanings they gave those actions and ...
... minority. They were able to capture some political power. Puerto Rican culture, on the other hand, has barely ... minorities, Puerto Ricans discovered that some opportunities for dancing disappeared on them even while others opened up ...
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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 |