None of the above : Puerto Ricans in the global era /
None of the Above is a state-of-the-art volume about current debates regarding Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans, both in the United States and on the Island. The title simultaneously refers to the results of a non-binding 1998 plebiscite held to determine the Island's political status, the ambigui...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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Colección: | New directions in Latino American cultures.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The absent state / Fernando Picó
- Sailing on the USS Titanic : Puerto Rico's unique insertion to global economic trends / Jaime Benson Arias
- Space out of place : consumer culture in Puerto Rico / Laura L. Ortiz-Negrón
- Nation and migration : rethinking Puerto Rican identity in a transnational context / Jorge Duany
- The political status of Puerto Rico : a nonsense dilemma / Carlos Pabón
- "None of the above" means more of the same : why solving Puerto Rico's status problem matters / Christina Duffy Burnett
- Vieques : protest as a consensual spectacle / Juan Duchesne Winter
- Entertainment tonight! Puerto Rican media and the privatization of politics / Silvia Alvarez-Curbelo
- Beauty salons : consumption and the production of the self / María isabel Quiñones Arocho
- Getting f****d in Puerto Rico : metaphoric provocations and queer activist interventions / Juana María Rodríguez
- Imagining Puerto Rican queer citizenship : Frances Negrón-Mutaner's Brincando el charco : portrait of a Puerto Rican / Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
- Exposed bodies : media and U.S. Puerto Ricans in public space / Frances R. Aparicio
- Transing the standard : the case of Puerto Rican Spanish / Gloria D. Prosper-Sánchez
- Boricua (between) borders : on the possibility of translating bilingual narratives / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
- The diaspora strickes back : nation and location / Juan Flores
- Will the "real" Puerto Rican culture please stand up? Thoughts on cultural nationalism / Raquel Z. Rivera
- Salsa, bad boys and brass / José Quiroga
- (a.k.a. : the sex/salsa/identity show) / Félix Jiménez
- Living la vida global : the case of Jose Padilla / Abdullah Al Muhajir / Frances Negrón-Muntaner.