Defending Their Own in the Cold(English, Electronic book text, Zimmerman Marc)

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Defending Their Own in the Cold(English, Electronic book text, Zimmerman Marc) is written by Zimmerman Marc and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252093496 (ISBN 10) and 9780252093494 (ISBN 13).

Marc Zimmerman works from a theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies to compare the artistic experiences and cultural production of Puerto Ricans with that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans. As he shows, even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Zimmerman examines a spectrum of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations with other ethnic groups and resistance to colonialism and cultural assimilation. To illustrate how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances, Zimmerman looks at the cultural examples of Latino entertainment stars like Jennifer Lopez and Benicio del Toro; visual artists Juan Sanchez, Ramon Flores, and Elizam Escobar; and a group of Chicago Puerto Rican writers.