Kicking Off the Bootstraps: Environment, Development, and Community Power in Puerto Rico

by Deborah Berman Santana

Book Overview

While small communities in Third World countries usually seem at the mercy of central governments and foreign capitalists, local activists can help exploited peoples correct environmental abuses and social injustices and seize control of their own destinies. Kicking Off the Bootstraps is a powerful case history of such an effort. It describes a grassroots activist movement that emerged in the Puerto Rican community of Salinas to counter the poverty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816515905
• ISBN13: 9780816515905
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"