Table of Contents:
  • The insular vision: Pedreira and the Puerto Rican misere
  • The Puerto Rico that Jose Luis Gonzalez built
  • Refiguring La Charca
  • "Bumbun" and the beginnings of plena music
  • Cortijo's revenge: new mappings of Puerto Rican culture
  • National culture and migration: perspectives from the Puerto Rican working class (with Ricardo Campos)
  • Puerto Rican literature in the United States: stages and perspectives
  • La Carreta made a u-turn: Puerto Rican language and culture in the United States (with John Attinasi and Pedro Pedraza)
  • "Que assimilated, brother, yo soy asimilao": the structuring of Puerto Rican identity
  • Living borders / Buscando America: languages of Latino self-formation (with George Yudice).