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- Title
Llegaron los afros: circuitos culturales puertorriqueños.
- Authors
OTERO GARABÍS, JUAN
- Abstract
In this essay the author presents the transformation brought about by the Nuyorican basketball players to the island's cultural realm through their media presence. The hairstyles that these athletes introduced in the sixties were part of a racial political discourse through which they reclaimed aesthetics and values commonly associated with marginalization. The gradual permeability of these aesthetic-political transformations in the Puerto Rican society would have a boomerang effect, with the athletes' return to their places of origin, becoming yet another example of cultural remittances and of what the author tangibly and, by extension, refers to as "cultural circuits" in the article.
- Subjects
PUERTO Rico; PUERTO Rican Americans; BASKETBALL players; STYLE (Philosophy); FASHION; CULTURE; HAIRSTYLES; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Centro Journal, 2016, Vol 28, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
1538-6279
- Publication type
Article