Identity And Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity (Politics, Society; 27)

Cruz, Jose

ISBN 10: 1566396050 / ISBN 13: 9781566396059

Published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1998

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in photo wraps. Fine and unmarked. 278pp inc. Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index; illustrated in photos. 278 p.

Seller Inventory # 046208

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Identity And Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity (Politics, Society; 27)
• Publisher: Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566396050
• ISBN 13: 9781566396059
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Argues that the fragmentation and instability are more likely to occur only when the differences are ignored and nonethnic strategies are employed. This title illustrates this claim by focusing on one group of Puerto Ricans and how they mobilized to demand accountability from political leaders in Hartford, Connecticut.

From the Publisher

Identity politics as a positive force in political mobilization and access to power