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Visiting Professor
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Social and Cultural Analysis
Yale University, Ph.D., 1970; Yale University, M.A., 1966; Queens College, B.A., 1964.
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Areas of Research/Interest: Social and cultural theory, Latino and Puerto Rican studies, popular music, theory of diaspora and transnational communities, Afro-Latino culture.
External Affiliations: Smithsonian Institution, Afro-Latin@ Project, Recovering the Hispanic Literary Heritage, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Fellowships/Honors: Casa de las Americas essay prize (1980), Ford grant for The AFro-Latin@ Project (current), NEH research grant (2007)
Select Publications:
Poetry in East Germany (1970)
Insularismo e ideologia burguesa (1980)
Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity (1993)
La venganza de Cortijo (1997)
From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity (2000)
Cortijo's Wake (2004)
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