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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... problem in understanding power is not really about measurement. It is, actually, that we don't really probe where power comes from and how and why it disappears. We assume and thus look for resources, weapons, soldiers, and in general ...
... problem with the conservative position is that some individuals make more important decisions than others. More importantly, decisions made in the recent and distant past get institutionalized and coded into practice in the present ...
... problems of the poor exist not just because of the decisions the poor have made. The problem for the poor is that the social roles and interests they move in are not completely theirs. Groups like Puerto Ricans also often refuse to ...
... problem has been reconciling the idea that humans are agents with choices and the realization that they are also not able to choose freely, consciously, or with the results they intend. Social structures, social roles, even power itself ...
... problems accounting for the powers of the weak. The problem is precisely those theoretical innovations. In these theories, fields act on both the strong and the weak. The argument is that there is a “network of social boundaries that ...
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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 |