Organizational politics of the East Harlem Barrio in the 1970s
essay 1984 Rivera, Monte

Puerto Ricans (Mainland)North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
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 b...