Author: Marc Zimmerman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans explores U.S. Puerto Rican culture in past and recent contexts. The book presents East Coast, Midwest, and Chicago cultural production while exploring Puerto Rican musical, film, artistic, and literary performance. Working within the theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies, Marc Zimmerman relates the experience of Puerto Ricans to that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans, showing how even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Defending Their Own in the Cold examines various dimensions of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations with other ethnic groups and resistance to colonialism and cultural assimilation. To illustrate how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances, Zimmerman looks at the cultural examples of Latino entertainment stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Benicio del Toro, visual artists Juan Sánchez, Ramón Flores, and Elizam Escobar, as well as Nuyorican dancer turned Midwest poet Carmen Pursifull. The book includes a comprehensive chapter on the development of U.S. Puerto Rican literature and a pioneering essay on Chicago Puerto Rican writing. A final essay considers Cuban cultural attitudes towards Puerto Ricans in a testimonial narrative by Miguel Barnet and reaches conclusions about the past and future of U.S. Puerto Rican culture. Zimmerman offers his own "semi-outsider" point of reference as a Jewish American Latin Americanist who grew up near New York City, matured in California, went on to work with and teach Latinos in the Midwest, and eventually married a woman from a Puerto Rican family with island and U.S. roots.
Defending Their Own in the Cold
Author: Marc Zimmerman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans explores U.S. Puerto Rican culture in past and recent contexts. The book presents East Coast, Midwest, and Chicago cultural production while exploring Puerto Rican musical, film, artistic, and literary performance. Working within the theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies, Marc Zimmerman relates the experience of Puerto Ricans to that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans, showing how even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Defending Their Own in the Cold examines various dimensions of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations with other ethnic groups and resistance to colonialism and cultural assimilation. To illustrate how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances, Zimmerman looks at the cultural examples of Latino entertainment stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Benicio del Toro, visual artists Juan Sánchez, Ramón Flores, and Elizam Escobar, as well as Nuyorican dancer turned Midwest poet Carmen Pursifull. The book includes a comprehensive chapter on the development of U.S. Puerto Rican literature and a pioneering essay on Chicago Puerto Rican writing. A final essay considers Cuban cultural attitudes towards Puerto Ricans in a testimonial narrative by Miguel Barnet and reaches conclusions about the past and future of U.S. Puerto Rican culture. Zimmerman offers his own "semi-outsider" point of reference as a Jewish American Latin Americanist who grew up near New York City, matured in California, went on to work with and teach Latinos in the Midwest, and eventually married a woman from a Puerto Rican family with island and U.S. roots.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans explores U.S. Puerto Rican culture in past and recent contexts. The book presents East Coast, Midwest, and Chicago cultural production while exploring Puerto Rican musical, film, artistic, and literary performance. Working within the theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies, Marc Zimmerman relates the experience of Puerto Ricans to that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans, showing how even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Defending Their Own in the Cold examines various dimensions of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations with other ethnic groups and resistance to colonialism and cultural assimilation. To illustrate how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances, Zimmerman looks at the cultural examples of Latino entertainment stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Benicio del Toro, visual artists Juan Sánchez, Ramón Flores, and Elizam Escobar, as well as Nuyorican dancer turned Midwest poet Carmen Pursifull. The book includes a comprehensive chapter on the development of U.S. Puerto Rican literature and a pioneering essay on Chicago Puerto Rican writing. A final essay considers Cuban cultural attitudes towards Puerto Ricans in a testimonial narrative by Miguel Barnet and reaches conclusions about the past and future of U.S. Puerto Rican culture. Zimmerman offers his own "semi-outsider" point of reference as a Jewish American Latin Americanist who grew up near New York City, matured in California, went on to work with and teach Latinos in the Midwest, and eventually married a woman from a Puerto Rican family with island and U.S. roots.
From Defense to Development?
Author: Sean M. DiGiovanna
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134351445
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book tracks the progress of 12 countries on five continents in moving resources from defense to civilian activity in the 1990s. Based on intensive research, it addresses each country with an impressive standard of scholarship.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134351445
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book tracks the progress of 12 countries on five continents in moving resources from defense to civilian activity in the 1990s. Based on intensive research, it addresses each country with an impressive standard of scholarship.
Defending the Earth
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320735
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Brazil: rural violence and the rainforest; Eritrea: a war on the environment; India: before the deluge; Kenya: environmental heroine or "traitor"? Malaysia: an unholy alliance; Mexico: cutting through the haze; Philippines: a dangerous environment for activists; The former Soviet Union: a poisonous legacy; United States: punishing whistleblowers.
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564320735
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Brazil: rural violence and the rainforest; Eritrea: a war on the environment; India: before the deluge; Kenya: environmental heroine or "traitor"? Malaysia: an unholy alliance; Mexico: cutting through the haze; Philippines: a dangerous environment for activists; The former Soviet Union: a poisonous legacy; United States: punishing whistleblowers.
Military Medicine
The Military Surgeon
WINTER IN CHINA
Author: Bert Stern
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499006381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499006381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Lobster Gangs of Maine
Author: James M. Acheson
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 0874514517
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
An anthropologist describes the working world of Maine lobstermen, focusing on the intricate personal network that sustains them.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 0874514517
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
An anthropologist describes the working world of Maine lobstermen, focusing on the intricate personal network that sustains them.
The Responsibility to Protect
Author: Desmond Tutu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199797765
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
'The Responsibility to Protect' provides a comprehensive view on how this contemporary principle has developed and analyzes how to best apply it to current humanitarian crises.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199797765
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
'The Responsibility to Protect' provides a comprehensive view on how this contemporary principle has developed and analyzes how to best apply it to current humanitarian crises.
Nomination of Dr. Morton H. Halperin to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: United States. Joint Publications Research Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
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