Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights
Published on 29. September 2017
220 pages
978-1-351-67873-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
5 Tables, black and white
File size
1,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-67873-5 (9781351678735)
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Lorrin R. Thomas | Aldo A. Lauria Santiago
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights
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09/2018
1st Edition
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Lorrin R. Thomas | Aldo A. Lauria Santiago
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights
Book
09/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Lorrin Thomas is associate professor of History at Rutgers University - Camden.
Aldo A. Lauria Santiago is professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and History at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.
Aldo A. Lauria Santiago is professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and History at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.
Content
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Mass Migration and New Migrant Communities in the Postwar Decade, 1945-1955
Chapter 2 - "The Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights" 1955-1965
Chapter 3 - Mass Mobilizations for Social Justice, 1966-1973
Chapter 4 - Civil Rights in the Activist Decade, 1974-1980
Chapter 5 - Dispersion and Momentum Since 1980
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 1 - Mass Migration and New Migrant Communities in the Postwar Decade, 1945-1955
Chapter 2 - "The Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights" 1955-1965
Chapter 3 - Mass Mobilizations for Social Justice, 1966-1973
Chapter 4 - Civil Rights in the Activist Decade, 1974-1980
Chapter 5 - Dispersion and Momentum Since 1980
Conclusion
Bibliography
