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The introduction offers a survey of this project seeking to center the work, innovation, and worldmaking of Puerto Rican artists across the United States. It highlights underrepresented and overlooked Nuyorican/Diasporican artists who have created new visual vocabularies or innovated interdisciplinary approaches within the broader context of contemporary art in the United States. While the Nuyorican movement’s sociopolitical activism, poetry, and music are acknowledged, scholarship on Nuyorican visual art lags behind. Artists of Puerto Rican background born or raised in the United States challenge fixed notions of identity, yet they remain marginalized in museums, exhibitions, and scholarship. The chapter strives to foster equitable dialogue, spotlighting a rich tapestry of Nuyorican and Diasporican creativity within American art while acknowledging gaps in scholarship on Diasporican artists and artistic communities beyond New York City more generally.

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Bibliography

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Miguel
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Raymond
Hernández-Durán
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E. Carmen
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, eds.
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New York
:
Routledge
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Minneapolis
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University of Minnesota Press
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Durham, NC
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Duke University Press
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Tirado Avilés
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Arlene M.
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and
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Duke University Press
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Geraldo L.
Cadava
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Claire F.
Fox
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Urbana
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University of Illinois Press
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Fernandez
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Chapel Hill
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University of North Carolina Press
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Nilda
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CENTRO Journal
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, no.
2
(
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Fusco
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New York
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New Press
,
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García
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Brooklyn Museum
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A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art
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Sullivan
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Wiley-Blackwell
,
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Reinoza
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Austin
:
University of Texas Press
,
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Rivera
,
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New York
:
Palgrave Macmillan
,
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.
Rosati
,
Lauren
, and
Mary Anne
Staniszewski
.
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Cambridge, MA
:
MIT Press
,
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.
Ruiz
,
Sandra
.
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.
New York
:
New York University Press
,
2019
.
Vargas Rodriguez
,
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.”
El Nuevo Día
,
October
20
,
2023
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Adriana
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Latin@ Art at the Intersection
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Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies
40
, no.
1
(Spring
2015
):
127
42
.
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