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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... periods, Puerto Ricans have increased their power as well as lost it. How did the Puerto Rican community get and then lose power? The existing theoretical approaches to explaining power offer little help. The main reason is that most ...
... period between the United States and the U.S.S.R, the result is an equilibrium of great power between A and B. The impact of interests on power, at this level of abstraction, is thus causal and direct. Power is a function of varying ...
... period of serious exploration and organizing around their objective class interests, however, Puerto Ricans, by the late 1920s began to organize themselves into a racial minority. Explaining these changes is a historical and ...
... period of radical political activity in the Puerto Rican community during the 1960s and '70s. Puerto Ricans gained some temporary and limited power by their rejection of dominant political and cultural values. Each of these periods ...
... periods can be found in many published historical accounts, where they remain unanalyzed by the authors. The subjective ... period in the 1940s and more recently in the late 1990s, Latinos have long felt that Latin music is effectively ...
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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 |