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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... move me. I thank my children for pushing me to grow up and for keeping me young. Leina, I marvel at your quiet introspection, your calm, and your creativity. You are right. It is usually better to say too little than to say too much ...
... moving over my body, exploring it rudely with his glances. “I am speaking of the national treasure in my arms,” he says, smiling. I laugh out loud, my fear dissipating, a dangerous sense of my own power growing. “I don't feel very much ...
... moving and dancing. They had too many needs, too many desires, and few ways to satisfy them. They sought power where they could and thought they could get more of it that way. The impetus to act or dance is conscious and unconscious ...
... move, though in the long run doing so made them weak. At times, their hopes for more power were misplaced or ... moved or danced to gain power, sometimes got it, but lost it later. Puerto Rican losses have been great. Taken as a whole ...
... move, the ability to change the way people think, feel, and act. What gets others to move and how they move springs from diverse social relations. Cultural and political relations are as important as economic ones in that regard ...
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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 |