1st Edition
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
