From Bomba to Hip-hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity

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Neither immigrants nor ethnics, neither foreign nor "hyphenated Americans" in the usual sense of that term, Puerto Ricans in New York have created a distinct identity both on the island of Puerto Rico and in the cultural landscape of the United States. Juan Flores considers the uniqueness of Puerto Rican culture and identity in relation to that of other Latino groups in the United States -- as well as to other minority groups, especially African Americans. Architecture and urban space, literary traditions, musical styles, and cultural movements provide some of the sites and moments of a cultural world defined by the interplay of continuity and transformation, heritage and innovation, roots and fusion. Exploring this wide range of cultural expression -- both in the diaspora and in Puerto Rico -- Flores highlights the rich complexities and fertile contradictions of Latino identity. pueblo pueblo Popular Culture in Time..............17 The Lite Colonial Diversions of Puerto Rican Discourse..............31 Broken English Memories Languages in the TransColony..............49 Salvacion Casita Space Performance and Community..............63 ChaCha with a Backbeat Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo..............79 Puerto Rocks Rap Roots and Amnesia..............115 PanLatinoTransLatino Puerto Ricans in the New Nueva York..............141 Life Off the Hyphen Latino Literature and Nuyoyican Traditions..............167