Frances R Aparicio
Biographic Data
| ID | 77335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances R Aparicio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances R |
| FAMILY NAME | Aparicio |
| SIGNATURE | APARICIO F R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6650-6635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings, by Marisol Negrón
Placing justice and joy in Latinx studies
Red Line Lullaby, directed by Yehuda Sharim
Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago
While Chicago has been long described as a city of Latinidad, there has been very limited academic attention paid to the lives of second-generation Intralatino/as—MexiRicans, MexiGuatemalans, DominiRicans among other rich combinations—who embody Latinidad in their multiple nationalities and ethnicities. Based on twenty interviews, this book documents the presence of Intralatino/as in Chicago and critically analyzes their everyday negotiations wit…
Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago
(Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies
Remembering Tato (1950–2013)
A New Literary History of America
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nati…
Cultural Twins and National Others: Allegories of Intralatino Subjectivities in U.S. Latino/a Literature
This essay traces various literary and scholarly articulations of what I call intralatino subjectivities. First, I examine the power dynamics, identifications and divergences in the interactions and encounters between two latinos of different national origin, and secondly, the identity negotiations and complexities of the intralatino/a subject, that is, the subject that has two or more different Latino national identities, such as the MexiRican. …
The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music—and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production—was available only in Spanish. This translation of Cesar Miguel Rondon's El libro de la salsa tells the engaging story of salsa's roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Repub…
From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz
While the first half of this book briefly examines the historical trajectories of the Cuban son, the pan-Caribbean nature of salsa music, and what the author calls the “aesthetics of sabor,” the second section focuses on the local circumstances of music making in the lives of bassist Israel “Cachao” López; drummers Armando Peraza, Carlos “Patato” Valdés, Mongo Santamaría, Francisco Aguabella, and Cándido Camero; trumpet player Alfredo “Chocolate”…
Shakin' Up” Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)
Writing Migrations: Transnational Readings of Rosario Ferre and Víctor Hernández Cruz
Musical Migrations
A dynamic and original collection of essays on the transnational circulation and changing social meanings of Latin music across the Americas. The transcultural impact of Latin American musical forms i
Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture
Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures
The Blackness of Sugar: Celia Cruz and the Performance of (Trans)nationalism
Studies on transnational cultures have shown that local, national identities are not necessarily subordinated to, or erased by, the globalizing forces of the economy. Rather, the local mediates transnational cultures as well as it is transformed by the crossing of cultural boundaries. Likewise, emerging interdisciplinary and cultural studies approaches to Latin(o) popular music examine the ways in which musical production, circulation and recepti…
Through My Lens: A Video Project about Women of Color Faculty at the University of Michigan
For some time now, the media, state legislatures, and the legal system have questioned the rationale behind affirmative action and, thus, have aimed to eradicate the presence and role of minorities in higher education. Ironically, faculty of color are still greatly underrepresented at the university level; and many face isolation, racial and gender-based antagonisms, the devaluation of their research interests and achievements, insufficient mento…
Listening to salsa: Gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures
"Insightful study of Afro-Caribbean salsa music among Puerto Ricans relates different meanings in salsa lyrics to issues of gender, race, class, and national identities, both in Puerto Rico and Latino communities in the US. Aparicio, a literary critic, uses a postmodern approach to analyze diverse musical texts"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
Performing the Caribbean in American studies
Performing the Caribbean in American Studies Frances R. Aparicio (bio) The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective. Second Edition. By Antonio Benítez Rojo. Translated by James E. Maraniss. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. 350 pages. Price $49.95 (cloth). $17.95 (paper). The American in American studies, now mediated by the forces of globalization, still carries the weight of colony and empire. The term has y…
Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America
Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad
On Sub-Versive Signifiers: U. S. Latina/o Writers Tropicalize English
As Victor Hernandez Cruz suggests in Snaps of Immigration, 1 the Spanish words of many Latino writers melt into the English of their otherness, like the guayaberas that dissolve in the cold of snow and into the neutral homogeneity of polyester. It is significant that here Spanish is metaphorized as illegal tropical fruits-mangoes, guavas, and plantains come to mind-not allowed to enter the United States due to federal agricultural restrictions. T…
Así Son: Salsa Music, Female Narratives, and Gender (De)Construction in Puerto Rico
Frances R. Aparicio, "Así Son": Salsa Music, Female Narratives, and Gender (De)Construction in Puerto Rico, Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 4, Loci of Enunciation and Imaginary Constructions: The Case of (Latin) America, I (Winter, 1994), pp. 659-684
On Multiculturalism and Privilege: A Latina Perspective
IN THIS ESSAY, I WILL REFLECT ON THE POLITICS OF MULTICULTURALISM and the ways that institutions across the nation are implementing and defining cultural diversity with paradigms in which class, race, privilege, and power relations remain essentially unproblematized. I articulate my critique of multiculturalism as a Latina scholar who is wholly committed to this ideal. My intention is not to dismantle or invalidate this movement but to help it gr…
Listening to salsa: Gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures
"Insightful study of Afro-Caribbean salsa music among Puerto Ricans relates different meanings in salsa lyrics to issues of gender, race, class, and national identities, both in Puerto Rico and Latino communities in the US. Aparicio, a literary critic, uses a postmodern approach to analyze diverse musical texts"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture
Through My Lens: A Video Project about Women of Color Faculty at the University of Michigan
For some time now, the media, state legislatures, and the legal system have questioned the rationale behind affirmative action and, thus, have aimed to eradicate the presence and role of minorities in higher education. Ironically, faculty of color are still greatly underrepresented at the university level; and many face isolation, racial and gender-based antagonisms, the devaluation of their research interests and achievements, insufficient mento…
Teaching Spanish to the Native Speaker at the College Level
On Sub-Versive Signifiers: U. S. Latina/o Writers Tropicalize English
As Victor Hernandez Cruz suggests in Snaps of Immigration, 1 the Spanish words of many Latino writers melt into the English of their otherness, like the guayaberas that dissolve in the cold of snow and into the neutral homogeneity of polyester. It is significant that here Spanish is metaphorized as illegal tropical fruits-mangoes, guavas, and plantains come to mind-not allowed to enter the United States due to federal agricultural restrictions. T…
On Multiculturalism and Privilege: A Latina Perspective
IN THIS ESSAY, I WILL REFLECT ON THE POLITICS OF MULTICULTURALISM and the ways that institutions across the nation are implementing and defining cultural diversity with paradigms in which class, race, privilege, and power relations remain essentially unproblematized. I articulate my critique of multiculturalism as a Latina scholar who is wholly committed to this ideal. My intention is not to dismantle or invalidate this movement but to help it gr…
Performing the Caribbean in American studies
Performing the Caribbean in American Studies Frances R. Aparicio (bio) The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective. Second Edition. By Antonio Benítez Rojo. Translated by James E. Maraniss. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. 350 pages. Price $49.95 (cloth). $17.95 (paper). The American in American studies, now mediated by the forces of globalization, still carries the weight of colony and empire. The term has y…
Teaching Spanish to the Native Speaker at the College Level
Salsa, Maracas, and Baile: Latin Popular Music in the Poetry of Victor Hernandez Cruz
We easily turned 139th Street into a tropical barriada. All the stores in the area had Spanish signs in front. In the mornings you would hear the radios blaring those Latin rhythms in an eerie but reassuring echoey unison-and the smell of hundreds of pots of Cafe Bustelo filling the air. ...the rhythm was very important to all of On 139th Street it would be my lullaby. Conga drums and chants echoing through the streets and alleyways in the late a…
Nuevos pasos: Chicano and Puerto Rican Drama
Sobre la literatura puertorriqueña de aquí y de allá: Aproximaciones feministas
Versiones, inter pretaciones y creaciones: Instancias de la traducción literaria en Hispanoamérica en el siglo veinte
On Sub-Versive Signifiers: U. S. Latina/o Writers Tropicalize English
As Victor Hernandez Cruz suggests in Snaps of Immigration, 1 the Spanish words of many Latino writers melt into the English of their otherness, like the guayaberas that dissolve in the cold of snow and into the neutral homogeneity of polyester. It is significant that here Spanish is metaphorized as illegal tropical fruits-mangoes, guavas, and plantains come to mind-not allowed to enter the United States due to federal agricultural restrictions. T…
Así Son: Salsa Music, Female Narratives, and Gender (De)Construction in Puerto Rico
Frances R. Aparicio, "Así Son": Salsa Music, Female Narratives, and Gender (De)Construction in Puerto Rico, Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 4, Loci of Enunciation and Imaginary Constructions: The Case of (Latin) America, I (Winter, 1994), pp. 659-684
On Multiculturalism and Privilege: A Latina Perspective
IN THIS ESSAY, I WILL REFLECT ON THE POLITICS OF MULTICULTURALISM and the ways that institutions across the nation are implementing and defining cultural diversity with paradigms in which class, race, privilege, and power relations remain essentially unproblematized. I articulate my critique of multiculturalism as a Latina scholar who is wholly committed to this ideal. My intention is not to dismantle or invalidate this movement but to help it gr…
Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad
Listening to salsa: Gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures
"Insightful study of Afro-Caribbean salsa music among Puerto Ricans relates different meanings in salsa lyrics to issues of gender, race, class, and national identities, both in Puerto Rico and Latino communities in the US. Aparicio, a literary critic, uses a postmodern approach to analyze diverse musical texts"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
Performing the Caribbean in American studies
Performing the Caribbean in American Studies Frances R. Aparicio (bio) The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective. Second Edition. By Antonio Benítez Rojo. Translated by James E. Maraniss. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. 350 pages. Price $49.95 (cloth). $17.95 (paper). The American in American studies, now mediated by the forces of globalization, still carries the weight of colony and empire. The term has y…
Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America
The Blackness of Sugar: Celia Cruz and the Performance of (Trans)nationalism
Studies on transnational cultures have shown that local, national identities are not necessarily subordinated to, or erased by, the globalizing forces of the economy. Rather, the local mediates transnational cultures as well as it is transformed by the crossing of cultural boundaries. Likewise, emerging interdisciplinary and cultural studies approaches to Latin(o) popular music examine the ways in which musical production, circulation and recepti…
Through My Lens: A Video Project about Women of Color Faculty at the University of Michigan
For some time now, the media, state legislatures, and the legal system have questioned the rationale behind affirmative action and, thus, have aimed to eradicate the presence and role of minorities in higher education. Ironically, faculty of color are still greatly underrepresented at the university level; and many face isolation, racial and gender-based antagonisms, the devaluation of their research interests and achievements, insufficient mento…
Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures
Musical Migrations
A dynamic and original collection of essays on the transnational circulation and changing social meanings of Latin music across the Americas. The transcultural impact of Latin American musical forms i
Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture
Writing Migrations: Transnational Readings of Rosario Ferre and Víctor Hernández Cruz
Shakin' Up” Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)
The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music—and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production—was available only in Spanish. This translation of Cesar Miguel Rondon's El libro de la salsa tells the engaging story of salsa's roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Repub…
From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz
While the first half of this book briefly examines the historical trajectories of the Cuban son, the pan-Caribbean nature of salsa music, and what the author calls the “aesthetics of sabor,” the second section focuses on the local circumstances of music making in the lives of bassist Israel “Cachao” López; drummers Armando Peraza, Carlos “Patato” Valdés, Mongo Santamaría, Francisco Aguabella, and Cándido Camero; trumpet player Alfredo “Chocolate”…
Cultural Twins and National Others: Allegories of Intralatino Subjectivities in U.S. Latino/a Literature
This essay traces various literary and scholarly articulations of what I call intralatino subjectivities. First, I examine the power dynamics, identifications and divergences in the interactions and encounters between two latinos of different national origin, and secondly, the identity negotiations and complexities of the intralatino/a subject, that is, the subject that has two or more different Latino national identities, such as the MexiRican. …
A New Literary History of America
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nati…
Remembering Tato (1950–2013)
(Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies
Art (20 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · History (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Cuban History and Society (9 works) · Humanities (9 works)