Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity

Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York

Rose Muzio (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2017
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-6355-1 (ISBN)

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Provides firsthand accounts of militant Puerto Rican activists in 1970s New York City.

In this book Rose Muzio analyzes how structural and historical factors-including colonialism, economic marginalization, racial discrimination, and the Black and Brown Power movements of the 1960s-influenced young Puerto Ricans to reject mainstream ideas about political incorporation and join others in struggles against perceived injustices. This analysis provides the first in-depth account of the origins, evolution, achievements, and failures of El Comité-Movimiento de Izquierda Nacional Puertorriqueño, one of the main organizations of the Puerto Rican Left in the 1970s in New York City. El Comité fought for bilingual education programs in public schools, for access to quality jobs and higher education, and against health care budget cuts. The organization mobilized support nationally and internationally to end the US Navy's occupation of Vieques, denounced colonial rule in Puerto Rico, and opposed US aid to authoritarian regimes in Latin America and Africa. Muzio bases her project on dozens of interviews with participants as well as archival documents and news coverage, and shows how a radical, counterhegemonic political perspective evolved organically, rather than as a product of a priori ideology.

Rose Muzio is Assistant Professor of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State University of New York at Old Westbury.

List of Illustrations

Foreword
Victor Quintana

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Puerto Rican Radical Politics in the 1970s

2. Operation Move-In and the Making of a Political Movement

3. Colonialism, Migration, and Nationalism in Political Identity

4. From Community Organizing to Radical Politics, 1971–1975

5. Resisting Cutbacks and Imagining Revolution, 1975–1980

6. Solidarity Work and Party-Building

7. Cadre Dilemmas

8. Conclusion: Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity

Notes
Works Cited and Consulted
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action
Zusatzinfo	24 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4384-6355-3 / 1438463553
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-6355-1 / 9781438463551
Zustand	Neuware