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Race and Performance after Repetition, 2020
Modern Drama
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance examines the creative works, ... more Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance examines the creative works, aesthetic practices, and lives of gender-nonconforming people, filling an important void in trans studies. Documenting the creative knowledge production of trans and drag performers produces a much-needed living archive that has been historically suppressed and erased.
Race and Performance after Repetition, 2020
The production of Minotaur was not only a reinterpretation of an ancient Greek myth, but an oppor... more The production of Minotaur was not only a reinterpretation of an ancient Greek myth, but an opportunity for Latino hip-hop artists to pass down a cultural tradition to the next generation. Latino artists situated hip-hop as a social movement, and the teen performers physically embodied this in the songs and dance. In this way, the Athenian rebellion became the breaking of stereotypes often associated with urban youths. The performers beautifully portrayed this act of resistance when Theseus took Minos’ golden crown, wore it, and passed it down for all the Athenians to wear
Revista Conjunto Casa de las Américas, 2019
The flash mob performs at the Stern Quadrangle Photo by Ben Wasserstein | The Collegian The beat ... more The flash mob performs at the Stern Quadrangle Photo by Ben Wasserstein | The Collegian The beat of the drums and the chants of "timely warning" bellowed across campus during the feminist flash mob interventions at the University of Richmond on March 5.
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2014
Part of her contribution is thereby to create new critical and theoretical circuits, bringing, fo... more Part of her contribution is thereby to create new critical and theoretical circuits, bringing, for instance, theorists of nationalism (Tom Nairn), postcolonialism (Partha Chatterjee), and modernist temporality (John Osborne) into conversation with Brazilian and Argentine cultural theorists, avant-garde writers, musicians, and artists. Indeed one of the hidden vectors of the book is its engagement with theories of the avant-garde as understood-in their breaks but also in their enmeshments-in Latin America and Europe, and particularly, in the understudied entanglement of each one with popular culture. Perhaps for this reason, some of the most beautiful and satisfying moments (in a book filled with them) involve analyses of artworks: artworks that reflect at once on local popular culture and on European engagements with them, stepping both toward and away from the outside world to trace out their own avant-garde primitivisms.
This article examines how Nilaja Sun explicitly employs the minstrelsy traditions of blackface to... more This article examines how Nilaja Sun explicitly employs the minstrelsy traditions of blackface to push the conceptual limits of racial identity, and expand the nodes of intersection within diasporic identities. The act of bluing up, as opposed to blacking up, is Sun\u27s way of provoking her audience to think more expansively about the performance of racialized identity outside of black and Latino paradigms, and toward a more complicated and not-clearly discernible Afro-Latino hybrid subjectivity. Sun uses what I call bluefacing, a performance tactic that magnifies the constrictive and monolithic perceptions of blackness and Latinidad as a means of generating alternative ways of living inside and outside racial and ethnic social masks. In her earlier works, Black and Blue and La Nubia Latina (1999), Sun demonstrates how the act of putting on and taking off various social masks both affirms and troubles her engagement with Afro-Latina diasporic lineages. I explore the ways Sun\u27s m...
Performance Matters, 2021
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y ... more Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne.
Afro-Latin@s in Movement, 2016
For many Puerto Ricans and other Latinos, Roberto Clemente was more than just a baseball star. Ab... more For many Puerto Ricans and other Latinos, Roberto Clemente was more than just a baseball star. Above all, he was a symbol of hope and humanitarianism, succeeding despite the overt racial discrimination he encountered as a Black Puerto Rican. Off the field, Clemente was renowned and beloved for his involvement in charity work in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries. His final humanitarian act came about in 1972 on New Year's Eve when the plane chartered to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua crashed into the ocean off the coast of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. His sudden and tragic death brought about many tributes, but one that has remained unnoticed is the ritual musical drama Olú Clemente: The Philosopher of Baseball. 1 Renowned Nuyorican artists, Miguel Algarín and Tato Laviera, pay homage to Clemente's life and perseverance by dedicating the ritual musical drama, Olú Clemente: The
Race and Performance after Repetition, 2020
Modern Drama
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance examines the creative works, ... more Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance examines the creative works, aesthetic practices, and lives of gender-nonconforming people, filling an important void in trans studies. Documenting the creative knowledge production of trans and drag performers produces a much-needed living archive that has been historically suppressed and erased.
Race and Performance after Repetition, 2020
The production of Minotaur was not only a reinterpretation of an ancient Greek myth, but an oppor... more The production of Minotaur was not only a reinterpretation of an ancient Greek myth, but an opportunity for Latino hip-hop artists to pass down a cultural tradition to the next generation. Latino artists situated hip-hop as a social movement, and the teen performers physically embodied this in the songs and dance. In this way, the Athenian rebellion became the breaking of stereotypes often associated with urban youths. The performers beautifully portrayed this act of resistance when Theseus took Minos’ golden crown, wore it, and passed it down for all the Athenians to wear
Revista Conjunto Casa de las Américas, 2019
The flash mob performs at the Stern Quadrangle Photo by Ben Wasserstein | The Collegian The beat ... more The flash mob performs at the Stern Quadrangle Photo by Ben Wasserstein | The Collegian The beat of the drums and the chants of "timely warning" bellowed across campus during the feminist flash mob interventions at the University of Richmond on March 5.
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2014
Part of her contribution is thereby to create new critical and theoretical circuits, bringing, fo... more Part of her contribution is thereby to create new critical and theoretical circuits, bringing, for instance, theorists of nationalism (Tom Nairn), postcolonialism (Partha Chatterjee), and modernist temporality (John Osborne) into conversation with Brazilian and Argentine cultural theorists, avant-garde writers, musicians, and artists. Indeed one of the hidden vectors of the book is its engagement with theories of the avant-garde as understood-in their breaks but also in their enmeshments-in Latin America and Europe, and particularly, in the understudied entanglement of each one with popular culture. Perhaps for this reason, some of the most beautiful and satisfying moments (in a book filled with them) involve analyses of artworks: artworks that reflect at once on local popular culture and on European engagements with them, stepping both toward and away from the outside world to trace out their own avant-garde primitivisms.
This article examines how Nilaja Sun explicitly employs the minstrelsy traditions of blackface to... more This article examines how Nilaja Sun explicitly employs the minstrelsy traditions of blackface to push the conceptual limits of racial identity, and expand the nodes of intersection within diasporic identities. The act of bluing up, as opposed to blacking up, is Sun\u27s way of provoking her audience to think more expansively about the performance of racialized identity outside of black and Latino paradigms, and toward a more complicated and not-clearly discernible Afro-Latino hybrid subjectivity. Sun uses what I call bluefacing, a performance tactic that magnifies the constrictive and monolithic perceptions of blackness and Latinidad as a means of generating alternative ways of living inside and outside racial and ethnic social masks. In her earlier works, Black and Blue and La Nubia Latina (1999), Sun demonstrates how the act of putting on and taking off various social masks both affirms and troubles her engagement with Afro-Latina diasporic lineages. I explore the ways Sun\u27s m...
Performance Matters, 2021
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y ... more Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne.
Afro-Latin@s in Movement, 2016
For many Puerto Ricans and other Latinos, Roberto Clemente was more than just a baseball star. Ab... more For many Puerto Ricans and other Latinos, Roberto Clemente was more than just a baseball star. Above all, he was a symbol of hope and humanitarianism, succeeding despite the overt racial discrimination he encountered as a Black Puerto Rican. Off the field, Clemente was renowned and beloved for his involvement in charity work in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries. His final humanitarian act came about in 1972 on New Year's Eve when the plane chartered to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua crashed into the ocean off the coast of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. His sudden and tragic death brought about many tributes, but one that has remained unnoticed is the ritual musical drama Olú Clemente: The Philosopher of Baseball. 1 Renowned Nuyorican artists, Miguel Algarín and Tato Laviera, pay homage to Clemente's life and perseverance by dedicating the ritual musical drama, Olú Clemente: The