Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights (American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century) - Hardcover

Thomas, Lorrin R; Lauria Santiago, Aldo A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138055298 ISBN 13: 9781138055292

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

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 dark-skinned or ‘foreign’ Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose to prominence in the late 1960s was built on a foundation of civil rights activism beginning much earlier in the century. The text contextualizes Puerto Rican activism within the broader context of twentieth-century civil rights movements, while emphasizing the characteristics and goals unique to the Puerto Rican experience. Lucid and insightful, Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights provides a much-needed introduction to a lesser-known but critically important social and political movement.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138055298
• ISBN 13: 9781138055292
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220