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The Young Lords

By: Johanna Fernández
Narrated by: Joana Garcia
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Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising vision, and skillful ability to link local problems to international crises riveted the media, alarmed New York's political class, and challenged nationwide perceptions of civil rights and black power protest. The group called itself the Young Lords.

Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police records released only after a decade-long Freedom of Information Law request and subsequent court battle, Johanna Fernández has crafted the definitive account of the Young Lords. Led predominantly by poor and working-class Puerto Rican youth, and consciously fashioned after the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords confronted race and class inequality and questioned American foreign policy. Their imaginative, irreverent protests and media conscious tactics won significant reforms and exposed US mainland audiences to the country's quiet imperial project in Puerto Rico. In riveting style, Fernández demonstrates how the Young Lords redefined the character of protest, the color of politics, and the cadence of popular urban culture in the age of great dreams.

©2020 Johanna Fernandez (P)2021 Tantor
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Horrible reader.

I was really looking forward to this book and the narrator completely ruined this experience she constantly mispronounced Spanish words and read the book with no life in her voice completely boring and dry. Please can someone just re do this audio book and get a better reader. I’m returning this book because of the horrible job done by the narrator.

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Great American history!

The details and background were very helpful to understanding the 1960s. Should be required reading for all middle and high school students.

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I thought I knew everything there was to know about the Young Lords...I was wrong!

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Educating and Powerful

Educating and Powerful. Thank you for sharing. The narrator was very good. Great to hear the positive impact The Young Loards had on their community and for exposing the level of discussion at all levels.