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Rethinking the struggle for Puerto Rican rights / by Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Lorrin, author.
- Lauria-Santiago, Aldo, author.
- Series:
- American social and political movements of the twentieth century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puerto Ricans--Civil rights--United States.
- Puerto Ricans.
- Puerto Ricans--United States--Politics and government.
- Puerto Ricans--United States--Social conditions.
- Puerto Ricans--Civil rights.
- Puerto Ricans--Politics and government.
- Puerto Ricans--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Politics and government.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 226 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans' political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States to create communities for themselves and their compatriots in times and places where dark-skinned or 'foreign' Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose to prominence in the late 1960s was built on a foundation of civil rights activism beginning much earlier in the century. The text contextualizes Puerto Rican activism within the broader context of twentieth-century civil rights movements, while emphasizing the characteristics and goals unique to the Puerto Rican experience. Lucid and insightful, Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights provides a much-needed introduction to a lesser-known but critically important social and political movement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Mass migration and new migrant communities in the postwar decade, 1945-1955
- "The struggle for Puerto Rican rights" 1955-1965
- Mass mobilizations for social justice, 1966-1973
- Rights in the activist decade, 1974-1980
- Dispersion and momentum since 1980.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138055292
- 1138055298
- 9781138055308
- 1138055301
- OCLC:
- 1048658965
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