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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... racial groups, like Italians and Jews, have increased their social power despite their poverty and small population. Nor can the explanation simply be that Puerto Ricans face racial discrimination. Yes, Puerto Ricans do live in the ...
... racial groups, like Italians and Jews, have increased their social power despite their poverty and small population. Nor can the explanation simply be that Puerto Ricans face racial discrimination. Yes, Puerto Ricans do live in the ...
الصفحة 23
... racial, and other forms of domination and exploitation appear and endure. They can't explain, for that reason, the historical experience of Puerto Ricans in the United States. Often mediating principles (survival of the fittest in evo ...
... racial, and other forms of domination and exploitation appear and endure. They can't explain, for that reason, the historical experience of Puerto Ricans in the United States. Often mediating principles (survival of the fittest in evo ...
الصفحة 38
... racial order cannot be viewed in postmodern terms as dematerialized, abstract, ghostly entities. Desire may be a principle medium for depositing uncon- scious investments that tie individuals to “powerful and destructive emo- tional ...
... racial order cannot be viewed in postmodern terms as dematerialized, abstract, ghostly entities. Desire may be a principle medium for depositing uncon- scious investments that tie individuals to “powerful and destructive emo- tional ...
الصفحة 39
... racial or political processes. To the extent that they find increasing vali- dation and sustenance in those alternatives, capitalist class relations lose some of their strength. Before reaching the critical level where racism or some ...
... racial or political processes. To the extent that they find increasing vali- dation and sustenance in those alternatives, capitalist class relations lose some of their strength. Before reaching the critical level where racism or some ...
الصفحة 44
... racial minority . Explaining these changes is a historical and interpretative research task . The goal is to understand not just what Puerto Ricans did . The need is to understand the subjective and real meanings they gave those actions ...
... racial minority . Explaining these changes is a historical and interpretative research task . The goal is to understand not just what Puerto Ricans did . The need is to understand the subjective and real meanings they gave those actions ...
المحتوى
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| 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 |
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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.