From Bomba to Hip-hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino IdentityNeither immigrants nor ethnics, neither foreign nor "hyphenated Americans" in the usual sense of that term, Puerto Ricans in New York have created a distinct identity both on the island of Puerto Rico and in the cultural landscape of the United States. Juan Flores considers the uniqueness of Puerto Rican culture and identity in relation to that of other Latino groups in the United States--as well as to other minority groups, especially African Americans. Architecture and urban space, literary traditions, musical styles, and cultural movements provide some of the sites and moments of a cultural world defined by the interplay of continuity and transformation, heritage and innovation, roots and fusion. Exploring this wide range of cultural expression--both in the diaspora and in Puerto Rico--Flores highlights the rich complexities and fertile contradictions of Latino identity. |
Contents
pueblo pueblo Popular Culture in Time | 17 |
The Lite Colonial Diversions of Puerto Rican Discourse | 31 |
Broken English Memories Languages in the TransColony | 49 |
Salvacion Casita Space Performance and Community | 63 |
ChaCha with a Backbeat Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo | 79 |
Puerto Rocks Rap Roots and Amnesia | 115 |
PanLatinoTransLatino Puerto Ricans in the New Nueva York | 141 |
Life Off the Hyphen Latino Literature and Nuyoyican Traditions | 167 |
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Popular passages
Page 243 - Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), especially the essay "The Market of Symbolic Goods,