Rethinking the struggle for Puerto Rican rights /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thomas, Lorrin (Author), Lauria-Santiago, Aldo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2019]
Series:American social and political movements of the twentieth century.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Mass migration and new migrant communities in the postwar decade, 1945-1955
  • "The struggle for Puerto Rican rights" 1955-1965
  • Mass mobilizations for social justice, 1966-1973
  • Rights in the activist decade, 1974-1980
  • Dispersion and momentum since 1980.