Ramón H Rivera-Servera
Biographic Data
| ID | 389618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramón H Rivera-Servera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramón H |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivera-Servera |
| SIGNATURE | RIVERA-SERVERA R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Texas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Translations and the Pleasures That Bind Us
The Night is Still Young: A Cross-Disciplinary Forum on Queer Nightlife Studies
Blacktino Queer Performance
Salsa crossings: Dancing latinidad in Los Angeles by Cindy García
José E. Muñoz’s Queer Gestures
As the collection of articles included in this forum evidences, Jose Munoz’s contributions to queer studies, performance studies, and critical race and ethnicity studies were immense. He led the way to a queer studies with groundbreaking theoretical advances that helped institute an academic field of inquiry that centers queer genders and sexualities as optics for understanding the world. At the same time, he critiqued and pushed that field to ac…
Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics
Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s, a period when the size and influence of the Latina/o population was increasing alongside a growing scrutiny of the public spaces where latinidad could circulate. Performances---from concert dance and street protest to the choreographic strategies deployed by danc…
Dancing Reggaetón with Cowboy Boots
In chapter, two seemingly excluding Latina/o dance venues in Phoenix, Arizona, provide a perfect excuse to explore how expressive culture has worked as a site for the development of discourses of masculinity and queerness at the U.S.-Mexico border, and how these discourses have been transformed into bodily practices and behaviors in transcultural and transnational settings that contest essentialist stereotypes about ethnicity and sexuality.
Performance in the Borderlands
Exhibiting Voice/Narrating Migration: Performance-based Curatorial Practice in ¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
This essay offers a critical reading of the exhibition ¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz. Focusing on the negotiations between institutional expectations and curatorial practice, this piece analyzes performance-based curatorial strategies employed in the articulation of an alternative to the narrative of Latina/o history at the Smithsonian. The author argues for a critical engagement with performance as an affective and effective approach…
Cultural Agency In the Americas (review)
Reviewed by: Cultural Agency In the Americas Ramón H. Rivera-Servera Cultural Agency In the Americas. Edited by Doris Sommer . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006; pp. 392. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Latin American scholars have for a long time exhibited caution with the US academic engagement of the region's leftist movements. Latin American [End Page 158] revolutions—from Fidel Castro's Cuba to Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, and from the Chilean…
Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (review)
As Coco Fusco states in her introduction to Corpus Delecti, there is a scarcity of scholarly material available in the United States that addresses Latin/o American performance art. This important new collection of critical and historical essays, performance excerpts, and artist statements on performance art offers a long awaited assessment of the diversity of work being produced by performance artists of Latin American descent throughout the wor…
Apartarte/Casarte (review)
Performance artist Josefina Baez approaches her work as an intimate dialogue with the audience. Apartarte/casarte is a performance series initiated by Baez in 1996 as an alternative to her work in traditional New York City theatre venues. The performances, organized as social events, take place in livingrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens in Washington Heights and other Dominican immigrant households throughout the city. The host, a member of the comm…
Exhibiting Voice/Narrating Migration: Performance-based Curatorial Practice in ¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
This essay offers a critical reading of the exhibition ¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz. Focusing on the negotiations between institutional expectations and curatorial practice, this piece analyzes performance-based curatorial strategies employed in the articulation of an alternative to the narrative of Latina/o history at the Smithsonian. The author argues for a critical engagement with performance as an affective and effective approach…
The Night is Still Young: A Cross-Disciplinary Forum on Queer Nightlife Studies
Blacktino Queer Performance
Apartarte/Casarte (review)
Performance artist Josefina Baez approaches her work as an intimate dialogue with the audience. Apartarte/casarte is a performance series initiated by Baez in 1996 as an alternative to her work in traditional New York City theatre venues. The performances, organized as social events, take place in livingrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens in Washington Heights and other Dominican immigrant households throughout the city. The host, a member of the comm…
Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (review)
As Coco Fusco states in her introduction to Corpus Delecti, there is a scarcity of scholarly material available in the United States that addresses Latin/o American performance art. This important new collection of critical and historical essays, performance excerpts, and artist statements on performance art offers a long awaited assessment of the diversity of work being produced by performance artists of Latin American descent throughout the wor…
Cultural Agency In the Americas (review)
Reviewed by: Cultural Agency In the Americas Ramón H. Rivera-Servera Cultural Agency In the Americas. Edited by Doris Sommer . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006; pp. 392. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Latin American scholars have for a long time exhibited caution with the US academic engagement of the region's leftist movements. Latin American [End Page 158] revolutions—from Fidel Castro's Cuba to Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, and from the Chilean…
Exhibiting Voice/Narrating Migration: Performance-based Curatorial Practice in ¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
This essay offers a critical reading of the exhibition ¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz. Focusing on the negotiations between institutional expectations and curatorial practice, this piece analyzes performance-based curatorial strategies employed in the articulation of an alternative to the narrative of Latina/o history at the Smithsonian. The author argues for a critical engagement with performance as an affective and effective approach…
Dancing Reggaetón with Cowboy Boots
In chapter, two seemingly excluding Latina/o dance venues in Phoenix, Arizona, provide a perfect excuse to explore how expressive culture has worked as a site for the development of discourses of masculinity and queerness at the U.S.-Mexico border, and how these discourses have been transformed into bodily practices and behaviors in transcultural and transnational settings that contest essentialist stereotypes about ethnicity and sexuality.
Performance in the Borderlands
Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics
Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s, a period when the size and influence of the Latina/o population was increasing alongside a growing scrutiny of the public spaces where latinidad could circulate. Performances---from concert dance and street protest to the choreographic strategies deployed by danc…
José E. Muñoz’s Queer Gestures
As the collection of articles included in this forum evidences, Jose Munoz’s contributions to queer studies, performance studies, and critical race and ethnicity studies were immense. He led the way to a queer studies with groundbreaking theoretical advances that helped institute an academic field of inquiry that centers queer genders and sexualities as optics for understanding the world. At the same time, he critiqued and pushed that field to ac…
Salsa crossings: Dancing latinidad in Los Angeles by Cindy García
Blacktino Queer Performance
The Night is Still Young: A Cross-Disciplinary Forum on Queer Nightlife Studies
Translations and the Pleasures That Bind Us
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Queer (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)