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The Puerto Rican movement : voices from the diaspora /
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 that emerged in the late 1960s to promote Puerto Rican independence and the radical transformation of U.S. society.
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Puerto Rican studies
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : political radicalism in the diaspora, the Puerto Rican experience / Andres Torres
- Political cultures of the Puerto Rican Left in the United States / Roberto P. Rodríguez-Morazzani
- Coming full circle : the Puerto Rican socialist party, U.S. branch / José E. Velázquez
- Pushing left to get to the center : Puerto Rican radicalism in Hartford, Connecticut / José E. Cruz
- Another West Side story : an interview with members of El Comité-MINP / José E. Velázquez
- Bridging homeland and barrio politics : the Young Lords in Philadelphia / Carmen Teresa Whalen
- "Rifle, Cañón, y Escopeta!" : a chronicle of the Puerto Rican Student Union / Basilio Serrano
- Unreconstructed revolutionaries : today's Puerto Rican political prisoners / prisoners of war / Jan Susler
- La vida pura : a Lord of the barrio / Pablo Guzmán
- "In the belly of the beast" : beyond survival / Esperanza Martell
- Our movement : one woman's story / Carmen Vivian Rivera
- Palante, siempre palante! The Young Lords / Iris Morales
- Artist, writer, and political prisoner : an interview with Elizam Escobar / Carlos Gil
- An oral history of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party in Boston, 1972-1978 / Angel A. Amy Moreno De Toro
- Poet, writer, a voice for unity : an interview with Piri Thomas / Humberto Cintrón
- Puerto Ricans and the Community Control Movement : an interview with Luis Fuentes / James Jennings and Francisco Chapman
- Páginas Omitídas : the gay and lesbian presence / Luis Aponte-Parés and Jorge B. Merced
- An African American-Puerto Rican connection / James Early
- Forging solidarity : politics, protest, and the Vieques solidarity network / Katherine McCaffrey.