Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Yale University, Ph.D., 1970; Yale University, M.A., 1966; Queens College, B.A., 1964.

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Research Interests:

Social and cultural theory, Latino and Puerto Rican studies, popular music, theory of diaspora and transnational communities, Afro-Latino culture.

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)

Selected Works:

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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