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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... Theory of Power 14 2 The Cigar Makers' Strike: An Economic Power Goes Up in Smoke, 1919 to 1945 53 3 The Rise of Radicalism: World War II to 1965 96 4 Puerto Rican Marginalization: 1965 to the Present 129 5 The Young Lords, the Media ...
... theories about power could not explain what went wrong. I found some answers, however, with my students in ... theory that political science had com- pletely ignored. That literature opened new theoretical possibilities. More ...
... theories of power avoid or fail to adequately explain how power gets created and destroyed. In most cases, the reason for this failure is simply that these theories insist on treating power as if it were an object. Power is viewed as an ...
... theories can't ex- plain that. In response to these deficiencies, other theories point to agenda setting and the manipulation of interests to explain who has power. This approach doesn't explain, however, how and why some people get to ...
... theories have avoided the issue of the ori- gins of power entirely by claiming that power comes into existence on its own as an almost primordial and ghostly entity ( Foucault and Gordon . 1980 ) . This approach never attempts to answer ...
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The Cigar Makers Strike | 53 |
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 |