Vito Marcantonio
Author: Gerald Meyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0791400824
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Author: Gerald Meyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0791400824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores Vito Marcantonio's unique status as a radical politician from New York City.
Author: Vito Marcantonio
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Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781258140588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith A Brief Introductory Account Of Vito Marcantonio, Congressman And Excerpt From Four Of His Major Civil Liberties Cases.
Author: Salvatore John LaGumina
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan Schaffer
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edgardo Meléndez
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2022-11-11
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 197883148X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the “Puerto Rican problem” campaign and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that arose in reaction to the entry of Puerto Rican migrants to the city after 1945. The “problem” narrative influenced their incorporation in New York City and other regions of the United States where they settled. The anti-Puerto Rican campaign led to the formulation of public policies by the governments of Puerto Rico and New York City seeking to ease their incorporation in the city. Notions intrinsic to this narrative later entered American academia (like the “culture of poverty”) and American popular culture (e.g., West Side Story), which reproduced many of the stereotypes associated with Puerto Ricans at that time and shaped the way in which Puerto Ricans were studied and perceived by Americans.
Author: Miriam Jiménez
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1136675965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative book investigates the process through which ethnic minorities penetrate into higher echelons of political power: specifically, how they succeed in getting elected to the U.S. Congress. Analysts today see ethnic politicians largely in relation to their collectivities, but by actually studying what ethnic minority politicians do and the issues they have faced, Jiménez's book offers an original perspective of analysis. Jiménez utilizes a ground-breaking comparative dataset of elected members of Congress organized upon the basis of national origin, the first available. Using the cases of Mexican-Americans and Italian-Americans, Jimenez analyzes and compares the different ways that these ethnic politicians have been elected to the national legislature from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Her study examines Italian and Mexican-American politicians’ actions and interactions with local political parties, identifies various layers of political power that have influenced their successes and failures, and uncovers the strategies that they have used. Jimenez argues that the politically active segment of an ethnic group matters in the process of political incorporation of a group. She also asserts that regular access of ethnic groups into upper levels of political office and the full acceptance of new ethnic players only occurs as a consequence of an institutional change. Jiménez’s pioneering documentation and analysis of the strategies of ethnic minority politicians and the ways that political institutions have influenced these politicians is significant to scholars of political incorporation, race and ethnicity, and congressional elections. Her book demonstrates the need to reconsider several standard ideas of how minority representation occurs and deepens our understanding of the role that political institutions play in that process.
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 1710
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 2820
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael C. Johanek
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781592135219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the mission of American public education? As a nation, are we still committed to educating students to be both workers and citizens, as we have long proclaimed, or have we lost sight of the second goal of encouraging students to be contributing members of a democratic society? In this enlightening book, John Puckett and Michael Johanek describe one of America's most notable experiments in "community education." In the process, they offer a richly contextualized history of twentieth-century efforts to educate students as community-minded citizens. Although student test scores now serve to measure schools' achievements, the authors argue compellingly that the democratic goals of citizen-centered community schools can be reconciled with the academic performance demands of contemporary school reform movements. Using the twenty-year history of community-centered schooling at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem as a case study-and reminding us of the pioneering vision of its founder, Leonard Covello-they suggest new approaches for educating today's students to be better "public citizens."
Author: Daniel Soyer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2022-01-15
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 1501759892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaniel Soyer's history of the Liberal Party of New York State, Left in the Center, shows the surprising relationship between Democratic Socialism and mainstream American politics. Beginning in 1944 and lasting until 2002, the Liberal Party offered voters an ideological seal of approval and played the role of strategic kingmaker in the electoral politics of New York State. The party helped elect presidents, governors, senators, and mayors, and its platform reflected its founders' social democratic principles. In practical politics, the Liberal Party's power resided in its capacity to steer votes to preferred Democrats or Republicans with a reasonable chance of victory. This uneasy balance between principle and pragmatism, which ultimately proved impossible to maintain, is at the heart of the dramatic political story presented in Left in the Center. The Liberal Party, the longest-lived of New York's small parties, began as a means for anti-Communist social democrats to have an impact on the politics and policy of New York City, Albany, and Washington, DC. It provided a political voice for labor activists, independent liberals, and pragmatic social democrats. Although the party devolved into what some saw as a cynical patronage machine, it remained a model for third-party power and for New York's influential Conservative and, later, the Working Families parties. With an active period ranging from the successful senatorial career of Jacob Javits to the mayoralties of John Lindsay and Rudy Giuliani, the Liberal Party effectively shaped the politics and policy of New York. The practical gains and political cost of that complicated trade-off is at the heart of Left in the Center.