essay
Organizational politics of the East Harlem Barrio in the 1970s
Puerto Rican politics in urban America • (107) • Published In 1984 • Pages: 61-72
By: Rivera, Monte.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
According to Rivera, Puerto Ricans used the antipoverty programs of the 1960s and 1970s as a means to develop political power within their own communities. The vast number of programs that emerged under Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty '…established bases from which economically disadvantaged people were able to challenge varying types of power groups and political machines' (p. 61). The lack of long-term funding, with no assurance of the renewal of their present income, tended to force political action groups into the political life of economically depressed areas.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Economic planning and development
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Public welfare
- Political behavior
- Political parties
- Elections
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- East Harlem; New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Monte Rivera
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83010739
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government