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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... official Manny Diaz once put it, Puerto Ricans do “not own banks, buy and sell the corporate stocks, deal in the real estate of whole neighborhoods, or control jobs the way an industrialist does” (Steiner 1974, 370). However, while the ...
... officials of Puerto Rican descent. Puerto Ricans can now boast that they have three of their own in the U.S. House of Representatives, whereas twenty years ago they had only one. There are many more Puerto Ricans in local and state ...
... officials, presumably have power and authority generated by the fact that they are the official government representatives for districts or states. Students of American government, however, have found recently that the power of elected ...
... officials, etc.) or culturally (as musicians, dancers, artists, Spanish speakers, writers, cooks, etc.). These group and public interests can be gauged indirectly only. Except for rare moments of candid self-reflection, most groups make ...
... Ricans had little power because they were treated by elected officials as no more than a passive voting bloc (1983, 178). In addition, the Figure 1.2. Cultural Capital's Impact on Political Power: Correlation of 48 Dance: A Theory of Power.
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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 |