q fuerte puñeta. chequéense este artículo reflexionando sobre el personaje “Diplo,” una pequeña aproximación a la historia del blackface en PR https://t.co/4Q241bgwUu (si alguien lo quiere leer se lo puedo mandar, sé que hay un paywall pero tengo el pdf)
"Ramón Rivero was an immensely popular blackface performer in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico known for his character-turned-persona, Diplo....created a vehicle for Rivero’s political critiques of US imperialism and humanitarianism" https://t.co/odBkh8gP
RT @autotheoryqueen: "For many in Puerto Rico, this blackface persona was an enactment of Puerto Rican liberation that simultaneously “cele…
"anticolonial nationhood in Puerto Rico has historically been premised on the disembodiment—and thus dehumanization—of blackness, a practice to which performance gives continued life" https://t.co/odBkh8gPn5
"For many in Puerto Rico, this blackface persona was an enactment of Puerto Rican liberation that simultaneously “celebrated” and “included” blackness" https://t.co/odBkh8gPn5
PUTTING PUERTO RICO'S BEST (BLACK) FACE FORWARD: RAMON RIVERO'S "DIPLO" AND RACIALIZED PERFORMANCES OF LIBERATION by Jade Power-Sotomayor @UCSanDiego To read: https://t.co/epdvE0QSlw @SN_Authors @SpringerNature @PalgraveJournal @Palgrave_