Provocative and broad-ranging . . . This eclectic, always interesting work will be certain to elicit discussion among faculty and students of ethnic studies, US popular culture, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies.
Choice
A brilliant intervention in the culture and politics of Latinos in the United States. Important, timely, and innovative, Boricua Pop is a stellar addition ... Read moreto a body of work that grows in importance over time. Negron-Muntaner's book is eagerly anticipated.
Jose Quiroga,author of Tropics of Desire Frances Negron-Muntaner is a challenging and provocative scholar whose multi-focal positionings turn the Puerto Rican process of colonization and migration into a fascinating transcultural hologram. Boricua Pop is a foundational text in American, Latino/a, Queer, Performance, and Cultural Studies.
Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez,Mount Holyoke College Important, timely, and innovative, Boricua Pop is a stellar addition to a body of work that grows in importance over time. Negron-Muntaner's book is eagerly anticipated.
Jose Quiroga,author of Tropics of Desire A perspicacious new book and one of the most intellectually exciting works of recent years, Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the latinization of American Culture gives new meaning to the idea of the pleasure of the text
QBR
Mixing the down and dirty with high culture to come up with good look at the transculture effects of it all.
San Juan Star
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