From Trigueñita to Afro-Puerto Rican: Intersections of the Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland

maritza quiñones rivera is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation is entitled “‘Invisibly Visible’: Mediating Blackness, Black Puerto Rican Woman and Popular Culture.” Her areas of interest are critical media studies; race, ethnicity, and gender; and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and African diaspora, both national and transnational.