LEADER 03956nmm 2200589Ia 450 001 9910162793803321 005 20240326120151.0 010 $a1-4384-6356-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438463568 035 $a(CKB)3710000001042630 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4792834 035 $a(DE-B1597)681658 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438463568 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001042630 100 $a20240326h20172017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRadical Imagination, Radical Humanity $ePuerto Rican Political Activism in New York /$fRose Muzio 210 1$aAlbany : $cSUNY Press, $d[2017] 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) $cTotal Illustrations: 24 225 0 $aSUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action 311 $a1-4384-6354-5 311 $a1-4384-6355-3 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aPuerto Ricans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xPolitics and government$y20th century 606 $aPolitical activists$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRadicals$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPuerto Ricans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aSocial movements$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial justice$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xPolitics and government$y1951- 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial policy 615 0$aPuerto Ricans$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPolitical activists$xHistory 615 0$aRadicals$xHistory 615 0$aPuerto Ricans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aSocial movements$xHistory 615 0$aSocial justice$xHistory 676 $a305.868/72950747 700 $aMuzio$b Rose, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01246489 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162793803321 996 $aRadical imagination, radical humanity$92890166 997 $aUNINA