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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... poverty get in the way of dreaming and striving for something better, even if it was only another apartment in the same building. If I took that lesson to heart, it was my wife, Luchi, who showed me so much about how to dream as well as ...
... poverty and small population. Nor can the explanation simply be that Puerto Ricans face racial discrimination. Yes, Puerto Ricans do live in the “belly of the monster,” as Jose Marti once said of life in the United States. They do face ...
... poverty, compared to 31 percent for all Latinos, 10 percent for non-Latino whites, and 33 percent for non-Latino blacks. Most shocking, this dismal economic picture reflects a thirty-year decline. The economic and social picture for ...
... poverty income through public assistance or succumbing to the vagaries of the underground and illegal economies. The results are deprivation, jail, or death. Puerto Ricans, according to the poet Pedro Pietri, “must work until they have ...
... 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 they are ...
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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 |