None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
PART I: THE POLITICS OF AMBIGUITY......Page 32
1 The Absent State......Page 34
2 Sailing on the USS Titanic: Puerto Rico’s Unique Insertion to Global Economic Trends......Page 42
3 Space out of Place: Consumer Culture in Puerto Rico......Page 52
4 Nation and Migration: Rethinking Puerto Rican Identity in a Transnational Context......Page 64
5 The Political Status of Puerto Rico: A Nonsense Dilemma......Page 78
6 “None of the Above” Means More of the Same: Why Solving Puerto Rico’s Status Problem Matters......Page 86
PART II: POLITICS AS SPECTACLE AND THE SPECTACLE OF POLITICS......Page 98
7 Vieques: Protest as a Consensual Spectacle......Page 100
8 Entertainment Tonight! Puerto Rican Media and the Privatization of Politics......Page 112
9 Beauty Salons: Consumption and the Production of the Self......Page 122
10 Getting F****d in Puerto Rico: Metaphoric Provocations and Queer Activist Interventions......Page 142
11 Imagining Puerto Rican Queer Citizenship: Frances Negrón-Muntaner’s Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican......Page 160
12 Exposed Bodies: Media and U.S. Puerto Ricans in Public Space......Page 178
PART III: BORICUA BORDERLINES......Page 194
13 Transing the Standard: The Case of Puerto Rican Spanish......Page 196
14 Boricua (Between) Borders: On the Possibility of Translating Bilingual Narratives......Page 208
15 The Diaspora Strikes Back: Nation and Location......Page 224
16 Will the “Real” Puerto Rican Culture Please Stand Up? Thoughts on Cultural Nationalism......Page 230
17 Salsa, Bad Boys, and Brass......Page 246
18 [a. k. a.: The Sex/Salsa/Identity Show]......Page 254
PART IV: CODA......Page 266
Living La Vida Global: The Case of Jose Padilla/Abdullah Al Muhajir......Page 268
Notes on Contributors......Page 284
B......Page 288
C......Page 289
G......Page 290
L......Page 291
N......Page 292
P......Page 293
S......Page 294
T......Page 295
Z......Page 296