The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora (Puerto Rican Studies)
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Book Description
Little attention has been paid to the Latino movements of the 1960's and 1970's in the literature of social movements. This volume is the first significant look at the organizations of the Puerto Rican movement, which emerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a response to U.S. colonialism on the island and to the poverty and discrimination faced by most Puerto Ricans on the mainland.
To combat these two problems, and drawing on a tradition of patriotism and social responsibility, a number of organizations grew up, including the Young Lords Party (YLP), which later evolved into the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization; the Pro-Independence Movement (MPI), which evolved into the U.S. branch of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party; El Comité; the Puerto Rican Student Union (PRSU); the Movement for National Liberation (MLN); and the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN). The Puerto Rican Movement looks at all these groups as specific organizations of real people in such places as Boston, Chicago, Hartford, New York, and Philadelphia.
The contributors, almost all of whom were involved with the organizations they describe, provide detailed descriptions and historical analyses of the Puerto Rican Left. Interviews with such key figures as Elizam Escobar, Piri Thomas, and Luis Fuentes, as well as accounts by people active in the gay/lesbian, African-American, and White Left movements add a vivid picture of why and how people became radicalized and how their ideals intersected with their group's own dynamics.
These critical assessments highlight each organization's accomplishments and failures and illuminate how different sets of people, in different circumstances, respond to social problems-in this case, the "national question" and the issues of social justice and movement politics.
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A long-awaited collection documents a missing chapter in the history of U.S. radicalism
Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
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edition.
The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora (Puerto Rican Studies)
The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora (Puerto Rican Studies),Andres Torres,Jose E. Velazquez,Temple University Press,1566396182,20th century,Anthropology - Cultural,Government - State & Provincial,History,History & Theory - General,History - General History,Political Science,Politics and government,Puerto Ricans,Radicalism,Sociology,United States,United States - General,Ethnic studies,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,Pressure groups & lobbying,Puerto Rico,Revolutions & coups,Social welfare & social services,USA,c 1960 to c 1970,c 1970 to c 1980,c 1980 to c 1990,c 1990 to c 2000
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