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The Puerto Rican Movement - Voices from the Diaspora (Paperback, New)
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The Puerto Rican Movement - Voices from the Diaspora (Paperback, New)
Series: Puerto Rican Studies
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Little attention has been paid to the Latino movements of the 1960s
and 1970s 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 1960s and 1970s 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 n 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 Comite; 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
\u0022national question\u0022 and the issues of social justice and
movement politics.
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