Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.
Contents
"Pueblo pueblo": popular culture in time -- The Lite colonial : diversions of Puerto Rican discourse -- Broken English memories : languages in the trans-colony -- "Salvacion Casita": space, performance, and community -- "Cha-cha with a backbeat": songs and stories of Latin boogaloo -- Puerto rocks : rap, roots, and amnesia -- Pan-latino/trans-latino : Puerto Ricans in the "New Nueva York" -- Life off the hyphen : Latino literature and Nuyorican traditions -- The Latino imaginary : meanings of community and identity -- Latino studies : New contexts, new concepts -- Postscript : "None of the above".