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Professor
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Anthropology
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Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D. 1996 (Cultural Anthropology), The Graduate Center, CUNY; M.A. 1990 (Anthropology and Museum Studies), NYU; B.A. 1987 (Anthropology), Tufts University.
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Areas of Research/Interest: race and ethnicity; nationalism; media studies; political economy, globalization; the politics of museum and visual representation; urban studies; consumption; Latinos in the U.S.
External Affiliations: American Anthropological Association, Puerto Rican Studies Association, American Studies Association, Latin American Studies Association.
Select Publications:
Books:
Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the Neoliberal City. University of California Press, 2004
Latinos Inc.: Marketing and the Making of a People. University of California Press, 2001.
Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York, co-edited with Agustin Lao. Columbia University Press, 2001.
Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico. Temple Univeristy Press, 1997
Selected Articles:
2004 El Barrio's 'We Are Watching You Campaign:' On the Politics of Inclusion in a Latinized Museum. AZTLAN: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 30 (1): 153-178.
2004 Empowered Culture? New York City's empowerment Zone and the Selling of El Barrio. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 594: 49-64.
Current News / Projects
Updated July 2009 This past year my book Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race came out with NYU Press to great reviews. Once again, I attended various conferences, including an invited panel “Urban Subjects of Value” at the American Anthropological Association meetings, and participated in a variety of guest speaking engagements at Notre Dame University, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Yale University, Middlebury College, and finally a keynote at UC-Davis Humanities Institute, Public Intellectual Forum. I continued carrying out research on a new project that broadly touches on issues of urban culture, economy and space examining issues of creative work in neoliberal urban settings. For this new project I am pursuing three interrelated research projects, first on shopping mall culture in Puerto Rico; second on issues of cultural equity involving Black and Latino arts and culture activists and NYC’s arts establishment; and last on international tango tourism in Buenos Aires. I look forward to a productive summer pursuing this new research.
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