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Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture

Author: Frances Negr n Muntaner

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"Boricua Pop" is a foundational text in American, Latino/a, Queer, Performance, and Cultural Studies."
—Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Mount Holyoke College

Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferré to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negrón-Muntaner traces some of the many possible itineraries of exchange between American and Puerto Rican cultures, including the commodification of Puerto Rican cultural practices such as voguing, graffiti, and the Latinization of pop music. Drawing from literature, film, painting, and popular culture, and including both the normative and the odd, the canonized authors and the misfits, the island and its diaspora, Boricua Pop is a fascinating blend of low life and high culture: a highly original, challenging, and lucid new work by one of our most talented cultural critics.

Table of Contents:

1	Weighing in theory : Puerto Ricans and American culture	3
2	1898 : the trauma of literature, the shame of identity	33
3	Feeling pretty : West side story and U.S. Puerto Rican identity	58
4	From Puerto Rico with Trash : Holly Woodlawn's A low life in high heels	87
5	The writing on the wall : the life and passion of Jean-Michel Basquiat	115
6	Flagging Madonna : performing a Puerto Rican-American erotics	145
7	Rosario's tongue : Rosario Ferre and the commodification of island literature	179
8	Barbie's hair : selling out Puerto Rican identity in the global market	206
9	Jennifer's butt : valorizing the Puerto Rican racialized female body	228
10	Ricky's hips : the queerness of Puerto Rican "white" culture	247
	Postscript : words from the grave	273

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The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation?

Author: Craig A Rimmerman

Throughout their relatively short history, the lesbian and gay movements in the United States have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace assimilationist or liberationist strategies. This new book explores this dilemma in both contemporary and historical contexts, describing the sources of these conflicts, to what extent the conflicts have been resolved, and how they might be resolved in future. The text also tackles the challenging issue of what constitutes movement “effectiveness” and how “effective” the assimilationist and liberationist strategies have been in three contentious policy arenas: the military ban, same-sex marriage, and AIDS. Considerable attention is devoted to how policy elites-most notably Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton; Congress; and the Supreme Court-have responded to the movements’ grievances. The book examines the George W. Bush presidency with an eye to assessing how political opportunities have informed the broader lesbian and gay movements’ strategies, and also details the response of the Christian Right to the movements’ various assimilationist and liberationist strategies.