Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and The Latinization of Americal Culture
"A brilliant intervention in the culture and politics of Latinos in the United States. Important, timely, and innovative, Boricua Pop is a stellar addition to a body of work that grows in importance over time. Negrón-Muntaner's book is eagerly anticipated."-José Quiroga,author ofTropics of Desire"Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a challenging and provocative scholar whose multi-focal positionings turn the Puerto Rican process of colonization and migration into a fascinating transcultural hologram. Boricua Pop is a foundational text in American, Latino/a, Queer, Performance, and Cultural Studies."-Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez,Mount Holyoke College"A perspicacious new book and one of the most intellectually exciting works of recent years,Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the latinization of American Culturegives new meaning to the idea of the pleasure of the text.-QBR,"Provocative and broad-ranging . . . This eclectic, always interesting work will be certain to elicit discussion among faculty and students of ethnic studies, US popular culture, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies."-Choice,"Mixing the down and dirty with high culture to come up with good look at the transculture effects of it all."-San Juan Star,