Boricua Power : : A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States / / José Ramón Sánchez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Sánchez, José Ramón,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

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