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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... racism and exploitation. But any explanation that relies on these categories succeeds only in making Puerto Ricans into victims, objects, and pawns of larger forces, like the racist American capitalist society. The dance model argues ...
... racism, in this sense, do not lie outside of class. Racism, for example, is not an additional, irreducible social cleavage, factor, or force. To a great extent, racism exists as a different but complementary set of relations within the ...
... racism or some other alternative social relation threatens the perpetuation of capitalism, there is coexistence. Class relations do not have any stronger grip on social life than racism or state power. As the social relation defining ...
... racism, of political persecution or neglect, of poor education, of a peculiar, self-destructive cultural taste for migration, etc. Each, no doubt, has an impact that is usually revealed in correlation and regression analyses of ...
... racist form. Thus, the American governor of Puerto Rico stated in 1915 that Puerto Rico was overpopulated because of the Puerto Ricans' “inherited improvidence, their racial characteristics” (ibid., 99). Another official report stated ...
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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 |