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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... interaction resembles a kind of social dance, with an ebb and flow of influence that is more mutual than it might ap- pear. My students can ruin my evenings as much as I can ruin theirs. I began to see power as generated by critical ...
... interaction resembles a kind of social dance, with an ebb and flow of influence that is more mutual than it might ap- pear. My students can ruin my evenings as much as I can ruin theirs. I began to see power as generated by critical ...
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... interaction . Be- cause they present an extreme case of both power and powerlessness , Puerto Ricans provide a good test of the dance model's simple proposi- tion . It is in the relationships created by passions and interests that one ...
... interaction . Be- cause they present an extreme case of both power and powerlessness , Puerto Ricans provide a good test of the dance model's simple proposi- tion . It is in the relationships created by passions and interests that one ...
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... interaction involving agents and interests . Power is generated and is lost in repeated interactions like this and in more complex ones involving many other agents. 1 Dance.
... interaction involving agents and interests . Power is generated and is lost in repeated interactions like this and in more complex ones involving many other agents. 1 Dance.
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... interactions, usually not consciously, not directly, and not in their own time. Agents are usually happy to ... interaction of interests. The theoretical focus on individuals, how- ever, limited its ability to explain the power ...
... interactions, usually not consciously, not directly, and not in their own time. Agents are usually happy to ... interaction of interests. The theoretical focus on individuals, how- ever, limited its ability to explain the power ...
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... interaction of interests and social groups in the construction of social power. Marxist theory, however, reifies economic structures as well as ignores political and cultural power. The dance model doesn't just correct each of these ...
... interaction of interests and social groups in the construction of social power. Marxist theory, however, reifies economic structures as well as ignores political and cultural power. The dance model doesn't just correct each of these ...
المحتوى
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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 |
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الصفحة 32 - Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
الصفحة 20 - ... a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
الصفحة 43 - To say that the Interests of capital and those of the workers are one and the same is only to say that capital and wage labour are two sides of one and the same relation. The one conditions the other, just as usurer and squanderer condition each other. As long as the wage-worker is a wage-worker his lot depends upon capital. That is the much-vaunted community of interests between worker and capitalist.
الصفحة 210 - Like all big cities, it consisted of irregularity, change, sliding forward, not keeping in step, collisions of things and affairs, and fathomless points of silence in between, of paved ways and wilderness, of one great rhythmic throb and the perpetual discord and dislocation of all opposing rhythms, and as a whole resembled a seething, bubbling fluid in a vessel consisting of the solid material of buildings, laws, regulations, and historical traditions.
الصفحة 19 - The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting.
الصفحة 84 - For recent migrants, the most important and most desirable life goals and adaptations in New York are: working hard and being a "good" worker; valuing formal education and schooling; learning English while not forgetting how to speak Spanish; cultivating the desire to "progress...
الصفحة 121 - There will be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle to-day...
الصفحة 20 - In proportion as the bourgeoisie, ie, capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed...
الصفحة 9 - ... situated so that they must take orders and rarely have the right to give them. Powerlessness also designates a position in the division of labor and the concomitant social position that allows persons little opportunity to develop and exercise skills. The powerless have little or no work autonomy, exercise little creativity or judgment in their work, have no technical expertise or authority, express themselves awkwardly, especially in public or bureaucratic settings, and do not command respect.