Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans

(Part of the Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest Series)

by Marc Zimmerman

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Marc Zimmerman works from a theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies to compare the artistic experiences and cultural production of Puerto Ricans with that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans. As he shows, even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Zimmerman examines a spectrum of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252085582

ISBN13:9780252085581

Release Date:November 2020

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans

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