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InTheDiaspora Strikes Backthe eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the home country, introducing hip hop and modern New York culture to the Caribbean island. While he focuses on New York and Mayaguez (in Puerto Rico), the model is broadly applicable. Indians introducing contemporary British culture to India; New York Dominicans bringing slices of New York culture back to the Dominican Republic; Mexicans bringing LA culture (from fast food to heavy metal) back to Guadalajara and Monterrey. This ongoing process is both massive and global, and Flores' novel account will command a significant audience across disciplines.

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• List of Illustrations(p. vi)
• Foreword(p. vii)
• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Introduction: Caribenos, Counterstreams, and Cultural Remittances(p. 1)
• Part 1 Conceptual Bearings
• 1 Thinking Diaspora From Below(p. 15)
• 2 Of Remigrants and Remittances(p. 33)
• 3 Caribeno Counterstream(p. 51)
• Part 2 Narrative Groundings
• 4 Tales of Learning and Turning(p. 75)
• Introducing the Tales(p. 75)
• Tales of Learning and Turning(p. 81)
• Reading the Tales(p. 141)
• Part 3 Style Transfers
• 5 Bring the Salsa: Diaspora Music as Source and Challenge(p. 151)
• 6 Open Mic: Poetry, Performance, Emerging Identities(p. 173)
• Coda: Visual Crossings(p. 199)
• Notes(p. 207)
• Bibliography(p. 217)
• Index(p. 229)

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John Martin Flores was born in Alexandria, Virginia on September 29, 1943. He received a bachelor's degree in German-language studies at Queens College and a master's degree and Ph.D. in German literature at Yale University. He began teaching German at Stanford University in 1970. While there, he became involved in the movement to develop Chicano studies curriculums in California. He also changed his name to Juan.

In 1975, he returned to New York to work at Centro, where the Latino studies curriculum was being developed for the City University system. Through his work there, he was hired as a professor of black and Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College, where he taught before becoming a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University in 2006. He was a leading theorist of Latin American studies and a pioneer in the field of "Nuyorican" culture, the arts and language of Puerto Ricans in New York.

He wrote more than a dozen books and edited many collections of essays. His books included From Bomba to Hip-Hop and The Diaspora Strikes Back. He died from complications of Guillain-Barre syndrome on December 2, 2014 at the age of 71.

(Bowker Author Biography)