Diaspora Strikes Back

Juan Flores is a professor at New York University.

• Part 1: Conceptual Bearings 1. Thinking Diaspora from Below 2. Of Remigrants and Remittances 3. Caribeno Counterstream Part 2: Narrative Groundings 4. Tales of Learning and Turning. A: Introducing the Tales B: Tales of Learning and Turning C: Reading the Tales Part 3: Style Transfers 5. Bring the Salsa: Diaspora Music as Source and Challenge 6. Open Mic: Poetry, Performance, Emerging Identities

"Flores' study offers a fresh, lively look at the intersections of Caribbean, disaspora, migration, and cultural studies, and its wide range of historical, scholarly, and cultural sources lends it both intra-regional specificity and a potentially global scope; its engaging language also makes it a pleasure to read."—Katherine Miranda, English Department, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico