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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Negrón-Muntaner, Frances
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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.