Title
Boricua Power : A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States / José Ramón Sánchez.
ISBN
9780814788530
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814788530.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.868/7295
Summary
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?Boricua Power explains the creation and loss of power as a product of human efforts to enter, keep or end relationships with others in an attempt to satisfy passions and interests, using a theoretical and historical case study of one community-Puerto Ricans in the United States. Using archival, historical and empirical data, Boricua Power demonstrates that power rose and fell for this community with fluctuations in the passions and interests that defined the relationship between Puerto Ricans and the larger U.S. society.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Dance: A Theory of Power
2 The Cigar Makers' Strike: An Economic Power Goes Up in Smoke, 1919 to 1945
3 The Rise of Radicalism: World War II to 1965
4 Puerto Rican Marginalization: 1965 to the Present
5 The Young Lords, the Media, and Cultural Estrangement
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
