Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. From Puertorican to Nuyorican forging Diasporican art in New York
6. 1 The Way Out = Left Out? Paradoxes of Puerto Rican Avant-Garde Art 27
7. 2 Nuyorican Vanguards: The Puerto Rican Alternative Art Space Movement in New York 45
8. 3 The Construction of Nuyorican Identity in the Art of Taller Boricua 70
9. 4 The Politics and Poetics of Máximo Colón’s Activist Photograph 90
10. 5 Artistic Decoloniality as Aesthetic Praxis: Making and Transforming Imaginations and Communities in NYC 104
11. 6 The Art of Survival: The Visual Art Activism of Maria Dominguez 131
12. 7 The Parallel Aesthetics of Nilda Peraza 149
13. 8 Creative Camaraderie: Puerto Rican/Nuyorican Artists and Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop 167
14. Part II Diasporican sites reports from the field
15. 9 Unpacking the Portmanteau: Locating Diasporican Art 189
16. 10 Puerto Rican Arts in Philadelphia: Una Perla Boricua en Filadelfia 212
17. 11 “A pesar de todo” The Survival of an Afro–Puerto Rican Family in Frank Espada’s Puerto Rican Diaspora Project 233
18. 12 The Fight to Make Art in Borilando 250
19. 13 Abstractions between Puerto Rico and Chicago: An Ongoing Conversation about Nationalism and Nonrepresentational Art 270
20. Part III All of the above Diasporican aesthetics
21. 14 Nuyorican Poets’ Art of Making Books 291
22. 15 Visual Artists, Surrealist Communions: Lois Elaine Griffith and Jorge Soto Sánchez at the Nuyorican Poets Café 311
23. 16 “ SAMO© . . . AS AN EPIC POEM WITH FLAMES” Al Díaz’s Poetics of Disruption 329
24. 17 ¡No te luzcas! Nuyorican Performance and Spectacularity in the Visual Art of Adál, David Antonio Cruz, and Luis Carle 352
25. 18 “Bridging Gaps and Building Communities” Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz’s Ask Chuleta and Afro-Latinx Identity beyond the “White Box” 372
26. 19 A Modernist Nuyorican Casita and the Aesthetics of Gentrification 393
27. Conclusion: The Spatial Politics of Shellyne Rodriguez, Rigoberto Torres, Lee Quiñones, and Danielle De Jesus—With Some Concluding Comments 407
28. Contributors 427
29. Index 435