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Author Muzio, Rose, author.

Title Radical imagination, radical humanity : Puerto Rican political activism in New York / Rose Muzio.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 226 pages).
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Series SUNY series, Praxis : theory in action
SUNY series, praxis, theory in action.
Summary "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"--Publisher description.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Puerto Rican radical politics in the 1970s -- Operation Move-In and the making of a political movement -- Colonialism, migration, and nationalism in political identity -- From community organizing to radical politics, 1971-75 -- Part I: Think globally, act locally : struggles for democratic rights -- Part II: Development of the Cadre Organization -- Resisting cutbacks and imagining revolution, 1975-1980 -- Solidarity work and party-building -- Cadre dilemmas -- Conclusion: Radical imagination, radical humanity.
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Subject Comité--Movimiento de Izquierda Nacional Puertorriqueño -- History.
Comité--Movimiento de Izquierda Nacional Puertorriqueño.
History.
Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Puerto Ricans.
New York (State) -- New York.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Political activists.
Radicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Radicals.
Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Social movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Social movements.
Social justice -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Social justice.
New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
National Book Committee.
Chronological Term 1951-
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Ethnic relations.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social policy.
Social policy.
Chronological Term Since 1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Social movements.
Other Form: Print version: Muzio, Rose. Radical imagination, radical humanity. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017] 9781438463551 (DLC) 2016021649
ISBN 9781438463568 (electronic book)
1438463561 (electronic book)
9781438463551 (hardcover)
1438463553
9781438463551