Friday, September 15, 2006

From Hip Hop to Reggaeton - Syllabus

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I have received a lot of requests for the syllabus of the class I am currently teaching at Columbia University. I am posting it here for eas...
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Friday, September 08, 2006

Half-Puerto Rican?!

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What and who is half-Puerto Rican? The question has a pretty clear answer in the U.S., but not in Puerto Rico and many other parts of Lat...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Email Conversation With Felix Jimenez on my Blanquitos and Reggaeton Post

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Felix Jimenez is a journalist, professor and author of Las practicas de la carne (2005) and Vieques y la prensa (2001). Mi Querida Raquel: L...
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On Appropriation, Class and Reggaeton

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This post is inspired by David's, Negrura's and TatoBrujo's comments to my previous blog post (on www.myspace.com/raquelzrivera)...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Will the Real Blanquitos Please Stand Up?: Class, Race and Reggaeton

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El blanquito guillao de caco , I have heard many call Residente Calle 13. The Eminem of reggaeton , I heard a MUN2 video show host quip. Bla...
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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Calle 13’s “La Jirafa”—“The Giraffe”

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Multifaceted, the Calle 13 who brought us "Atrévete te te"s lyrical imperative of hitching up our skirts all the way up to our bac...
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Interlude: Residente Calle 13 On Masculinity, Gender Roles

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Thanks to Tato Torres for the reference to a Cultura Viva program he saw on HITN. Anyone have a copy? In it, Calle 13 said: "Los hombre...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Reggaeton and Gender: We Keep Talking Past Each Other (Part 4: On Masculinity)

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Reggaeton just happened to be the music genre my students and I were discussing when we had those long debates regarding images of women in ...

Reggaeton and Gender: We Keep Talking Past Each Other (Part 3: On Self-Respect)

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Dear R., Are the reggaeton female fans, dancers and models who are getting naked and scandalously sexual on the club stage, dance floor and ...
Friday, August 11, 2006

Reggaeton and Gender: We Keep Talking Past Each Other (Part 2)

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A few classes went by. And the spiny subject of gender came up again. Elsie was giving an oral presentation on her final project. She was a ...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

Reggaeton and Gender: We Keep Talking Past Each Other (Part I)

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I did not imagine guiding discussions about gender dynamics in university classrooms would be this hard. Oh, it is! And it is also illuminat...
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