Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction / Arlene DÁvila and Yasmin Ramirez  1
Part I. From Puerto Rican to Nuyorican Forging Diasporican Art in New York
1. The Way Out=Left Out? Paradoxes of Puerto Rican Avant-Garde Art / Melissa M. Ramos Borges  27
2. Nuyorican Vanguards: The Puerto Rican Alternative Art Space Movement in New York / Yasmin Ramirez  45
3. The Construction of Nuyorican Identity in the Art of Taller Bouricua / TaÍna Caragol  70
4. The Politics and Poetics of MÁximo ColÓn’s Activist Photography / Elizabeth Ferrer  90
5. Artistic Decoloniality as Aesthetic Praxis: Making and Transforming Imaginations and Communities in NYC / Wilson ValentÍn-Escobar  104
6. The Art of Survival: The Visual Art Activism of Maria Dominguez / Al Hoyos-Twomey  131
7. The Parallel Aesthetics of Nilda Peraza / NÉstor David Pastor  149
8. Creative Camaraderie: Puerto Rican / Nuyorican Artists and Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop / Deborah Cullen-Morales  167
Part II. Diasporican Sites Reports from the Field
9. Unpacking the Portmanteau: Locating Diasporican Art / TerÉz Iacovino  189
10. Puerto Rican Arts in Philadelphia: Una Perla Boricua en Filadelfia / Johnny Irizarry  212
11. “A pesar de todo”: The Survival of an Afro-Puerto Rican Family in Frank Espada’s Puerto Rican Diaspora Project / Yomaira C. Figueroa-VÁsquez  233
12. The Fight to Make Art in Borilando / Raquel Reichard  250
13. Abstractions between Puerto Rico and Chicago: An Ongoing Conversation about Nationalism and Nonprepresentational Art / Abdiel D. Segarra RÍos  270
Part III. All of the Above: Diasporican Aesthetics
14. Nuyorican Poets’ Art of Making Books / UrayoÁn Noel  291
15. Visual Artists, Surrealist Communions: Lois Elaine Griffith and Jorge Soto SÁnchez at the Nuyorican Poets CafÉ / Joseph Anthony CÁcares  311
16. “SAMO© . . . AS AN EPIC POEM WITH FLAMES”: Al DÍaz’s Poetics of Disruption / Rojo Robles  329
17. ¡No te luzcas! Nuyorican Performance and Spectacularity in the Visual Art of AdÁl, David Antonio Cruz, and Luis Carle / Arnaldo M. Cruz-MalavÉ  352
18.  “Bridging Gaps and Building Communities”: Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz’s Ask Chuleta and Afro-Latinx Identity beyond the “White Box” / Kerry Doran  372
19. A Modernist Nuyorican Casita and the Aesthetics of Gentrification / Johana LondoÑo  393
Conclusion. The Spatial Politics of Shellyne Rodriguez, Rigoberto Torres, Lee QuiÑones, and Daniella De Jesus-With Some Concluding Comments / Arlene DÁvila  407
Contributors  427
Index  435