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is where revolutionary politics go to die,

This book has great sources, its not a bad place to start when learning about the NYYL but it dilutes their politics in every analysis sections.
The author labels the community control a “trope” because he views the struggle through the lense

of academia, Books like this have the very difficult task of living in two worlds, On one hand, they need to be useful to the social movements that birthed their subjectsin this case the street corner politics of the Young Lords.
On the other hand, they also have to jump through academic hoops just to find a publisher, WanzerSerrano accomplishes this mission with grace and style, This book will also be very instructive as issues of migration, colonialism and race take center stage again in activist concerns, Well done. This was a book that really highlighted how the Young Lords formed, rose to power, and then faded out, It's a very informational book with a lot of stories about the organization itself, and the big names involved, The part that I struggled with was the fact that this book is extremely academic, This is not to say anything about the book or the author, I just didn't realize it was going to be presented through such an academic lens, It was dissertationlike and I got lost in quite a bit of the theory that was presented, So, overall a really good book too academic for me! The Young Lords was a multiethnic, though primarily Nuyorican, liberation organization that formed in El Barrio Spanish Harlem in July of.
Responding to oppressive approaches to the health, educational, and political needs of the Puerto Rican community, the movements revolutionary activism included organized protests and sitins targeting such concerns as trash pickups and lead paint hazards.
The Young Lords advanced a thirteenpoint political program that demanded community control of their institutions and land and challenged the exercise of power by the state and outsiderrun institutions.

 
In The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation, Darrel WanzerSerrano details the numerous community initiatives that advanced decolonial sensibilities in El Barrio and beyond.
Using archival research and interviews, he crafts an engaging account of the Young Lords discourse and activism, He rescues the organization from historical obscurity and makes an argument for its continued relevance, enriching and informing contemporary discussions about Latino/a politics.
 
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