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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... percent). The same dismal picture is true in employment. Only about 54 percent of Puerto Ri- cans participate in the labor force. This compares to about 65 percent for all Latinos, 66 percent for non-Latino whites, and 62 percent for ...
... percentage of blacks in New York munici- pal employment actually declined in the 1910s and 1920s despite the rise in the black population " ( 319 ) . But at the same time that African Ameri- cans found limited opportunities to move and ...
... percent of Puerto Ricans laborers “were reported good” (ibid., 60). It is hard to establish the truth behind these complaints. It may very well be that Puerto Ricans did abandon Hawaiian plantations in exchange for an itinerant ...
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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 |