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“Salvación Casita” Puerto Rican Performance and Vernacular Architecture in the South Bronx

By Diana Taylor, Joan Flores, Juan Villegas
Published: 01 January 1994
DOI: 10.1215/9780822399278-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9927-8
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Primero Pusimos Las Sillas En Posición Y Después Las Mantas Encima. Tenemos Una Casita Linda Solamente Para Nosotros. Ahora Vamos a Jugar a Que Yo Soy El Papá Y Que Tu Eres La Mamá Y Podemos Hablar Como Lo Hacen Ellos Cuando Creen Que Nos Hemos Dormido. Ya? / First We Set Up the Chairs and Then We Put the Blankets On Top. Now We Have a Nice Little House Just for Us. Now Let’s Pretend That I’m the Daddy and You’re the Mommy and We Talk Like They Do When They Think We’re Asleep. Ok?

By Ariel Dorfman, Edith Grossman
Published: 13 August 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383956-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8395-6
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A Modernist Nuyorican Casita and the Aesthetics of Gentrification

By Arlene Dávila, Johana Londoño, Yasmin Ramirez
Published: 27 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060208-020
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... The chapter explores the transformation of Nuyorican casitas, emblematic structures of South Bronx culture, into institutionalized objects. The Willis Avenue Community Garden’s casita, displayed at the Bronx Museum in 2014, embodies this shift. Originally a symbol of resistance against urban...
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By Arlene Dávila, Yasmin Ramirez
Published: 27 December 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... South Bronx architecture urban change casita gentrification ...
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All of the Above Diasporican Aesthetics

By Arlene Dávila, Yasmin Ramirez
Published: 27 December 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... Chuleta’s chusmería tactics parody white supremacy and disidentify with dominant paradigms. YouTube persona digital media Afro-Latinx chusmería The chapter explores the transformation of Nuyorican casitas, emblematic structures of South Bronx culture, into institutionalized objects...