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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... rejecting the threat posed by the weapon, they impede the delivery of power to its owner. A gun in it- self, therefore, possesses little intrinsic power. It simply makes transparent that its owner is in a position to take away something ...
... rejection of the values controlled by those on top, by becoming free of their own ap- parently insatiable desires, by “either nihilistic, inventive destruction or Stoicism” (ibid.). The weak can become stronger, thus, by reducing or ...
... rejecting all advances others make to dance with them. These individuals often don't even acknowledge a re- quest to dance. This personal tactic of inaccessibility is but one of over a score of tactics that participants use in dance ...
... vot- ers will go elsewhere. Indifference is thus a sign of pain and rejection in consumers and voters that produces no corresponding pain-reducing responses from firms or parties. It is also an attempt Dance: A Theory of Power 37.
... rejection of dominant political and cultural values . Each of these periods represented a defining moment in Puerto Rican community history with decisive impact on Puerto Ricans ' power as a community . How were they identified ? Except ...
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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 |