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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... roles and functions or reject them in pursuit of elicit, defiant, or socially prescribed alternatives leaves them exactly where they started or worse. Working places them in a job requiring few skills, with no future and with small ...
... roles and interests they move in are not completely theirs. Groups like Puerto Ricans also often refuse to participate in some activities (like education or wage labor) because they feel out of place in those venues, alienated, or ...
... role of the agent, both individual and social, in the constitution of society. More specifically, the dance model focuses on the social interests, passions, and habits that set people in motion, usually towards and with each other, and ...
... role of both social agents and social structures in a complex dialectic that reveals how power emerges, changes, and disappears. It does so by a focus on interests, structures, and the consensus and agreement between partners involved ...
... role of social interests, passions, and habits. It is these features of the dance model that permit us to overcome the continuing dichotomies in social theory between agency and structure, power and powerlessness, as well as permanence ...
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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 |