Puerto Rican Politics in New York City during the 1960s: Structural Ideation, Contingency, and Power
2011
This chapter is a historical collage of Puerto Rican political participation
in New York City from 1960 to 1970. It focuses on the role Puerto Rican
political elites and groups played within New York City politics, seeking
insights into the process of access to power and its exercise. The chapter
first places Puerto Rican political participation in context by briefly outlining the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the community during the 1960s. Next, it offers a description of three types of
political participation at the elite and group level: electoral, community,
and radical politics. Based on this account, the chapter concludes with a
comment on the consequences of Puerto Rican political participation for
the community and for city politics, along with a reflection on the nature
and character of access to and exercise of political power that favors a
willful and contingent style of thinking and action.
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