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Puerto Ricans in America: PUBLICATION POSTPONED (New Directions in Latino American Culture)
Puerto Ricans in America PUBLICATION POSTPONED - New Directions in Latino American Culture Author:Xavier F. Totti, Felix V. Matos Rodriquez This volume integrates academic essays, interviews and visual images to document the history of Puerto Ricans in the United States in the 1960s. The book attempts to fill two voids in the literature of Puerto Ricans/Latinos in the United States. First and foremost, to document the Puerto Rican community and student movements of the 1960s. This d... more »ecade saw the active struggle of Puerto Rican youth, many times outside the established political parties and organizations, for social inclusion, civil rights, cultural nationalism and change in the power structure of their communities. The second void is that of the general literature of the 1960s. With the exception of the civil rights movement, the voluminous literature on decade of the 1960s tends to ignore minorities, specifically Puerto Ricans, Chicanos and Latinos. The essays and interviews presented in the volume will add depth to the complexity of this crucial period in US history and will show the perspectives of minorities within the processes of the time.« less