Curriculum Vitae—Personal
New York, NY 10029
E-mail: rzrd@aol.com
EDUCATION
2000 Ph.D.
Graduate School of the City University of New York, New York
Department: Sociology
Dissertation: New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone: Between
Blackness and Latinidad Chairperson: Juan Flores, Ph.D.
1996 M.A.
Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San
Juan, Puerto Rico
Concentration: Puerto Rican Studies
Thesis: Para rapear en puertorriqueño: discurso y política
cultural
Chairperson: Angel Quintero Rivera, Ph.D.
1992 B.A.
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Concentration: Development Studies
Honors Thesis: National Development in the Political Thought of
Pedro Albizu Campos Chairperson: Paget Henry, Ph.D.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1994 - present
Freelance Journalist
Contributor to newspapers El Diario/La Prensa and Hoy
in New York, and El Nuevo Día, The San Juan Star
and Claridad in Puerto Rico; and to magazines Críticas,
One World, In the House, New York Latino
and Stress, among others.
1992 - present
Freelance Editor, Translator, Interpreter and Proofreader
Provide services for Booklinks Publishing Services, Queens, New
York; The Bravo Group, New York, New York; El Nuevo Día,
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico; Towers Perrin Consulting Firm, Washington
D.C.; among others
2000 - 2001
Producer and News Editor, Radio WADO, 1280 AM, New York
Duties: Produce "Primera Plana" current affairs show.
Write and edit morning news.
Supervisor: Josiván Padilla, News Director
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Rivera, R.Z. (2003). New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martin's.
BOOK AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
Rivera, R.Z. (2002). "Hip Hop and New York Puerto Rican
Identities." In Latina/o Popular Culture, ed. Mary
Romero and Michelle Habell-Pallán. New York: New York
University Press.
Rivera, R.Z. (2001). "Hip Hop, Puerto Ricans and
Ethno-Racial Identities in New York." Pp. 235-261 in Mambo
Montage: The Latinization of New York, ed. Agustín Laó-Montes
and Arlene Dávila. New York: Columbia University Press.
Rivera, R.Z. (1998). "Cultura y poder en el rap
puertorriqueño." Revista de Ciencias Sociales,
University of Puerto Rico, 4, January: 124-146.
Rivera, R.Z. (1997). "Rap in Puerto Rico: Reflections from
the Margins." Pp. 109-127 in Globalization and Survival
in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge, ed. Charles
Green. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
Rivera, R.Z. (1997). "Rapping Two Versions of the Same
Requiem." Pp. 243-256 in Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking
Colonialism and Nationalism, ed. Frances Negrón-Muntaner
and Ramón Grosfoguel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press.
Rivera, R.Z. (1996). "Boricuas from the Hip Hop Zone: Notes
on Race and Ethnic Relations in New York City." Centro,
Center for Puerto Rican Studies, City University of New York,
VIII, 1&2: 202-217.
Oquendo, Carmen and R.Z. Rivera (1993). "El rap en Puerto
Rico: Reclamando espacios culturales." Postdata, 8:
63-65.
Rivera, R.Z. (1992-93). "Rap Music in Puerto Rico: Mass
Consumption or Social Resistance?" Centro, Center
for Puerto Rican Studies, City University of New York, V, 1:
52-65.
SELECTED NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Rivera, R.Z. (2002). “Fat Joe: Al amparo del dios del trueno.”
In the House Magazine, 22.
Rivera, R. Z. (2002). “Hip hop: Mitos y raíces.” In the
House Magazine, 21: 48: 24-25.
Rivera, R.Z. (2001). "Fat Joe: Lider del 'Terror
Squad'." El Diario/La Prensa, June 29: 37.
Rivera, R.Z. (2001). "Teatro al estilo hip hop toma a Nueva
York." El Diario/La Prensa, June 27: 37.
Rivera, R.Z. (2001). "Un año sin Big Punisher." El
Nuevo Día, February 9: 112.
Rivera, R.Z. (2000). "Una boda al estilo 'hip hop'." Hoy,
December 28: 14.
Rivera, R.Z. (1999). "Vico C." New York Latino,
Summer: 36-37.
Rivera, R.Z. (1997). "Not Hip Hop But Rap Cubano: Cuba's
3rd Annual National Rap Festival." Stress, 10,
December: 84-86.
Rivera, R.Z. (1997). "Droppin' Bombs Ain't Always Healthy:
The Navy Plays Target Practice in One Puerto Rican
Community." Stress, 9, October: 28-29.
Rivera, R.Z. (1996). "Rice and Beans and Hip Hop
Politics." The San Juan Star, March 3: 14 (Venue).
Rivera, R.Z. (1995). "Two Guanábanas and a Little
Mayhem." The San Juan Star, September 10: 10-11
(Venue).
Rivera, R.Z. (1995). "Del underground a la superficie."
Claridad, February 10-16: 29.
Oquendo, Carmen and R.Z. Rivera (1994). "Rapeando en
puertorriqueño." Claridad, June 10-16: 22-23.
Rivera, R.Z. (1994). "¿Que el rap no es cultura?" Claridad,
March 4-10: 26.
LECTURES AND PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Rivera, R.Z. (April 2002). “Nacionalismo cultural: Raíces que
matan, raíces que dan vida.” Paper presented at The Puerto
Rican “Vacilón”: A Conference on Current Debates in Puerto
Rican Culture and Politics, sponsored by The Center for Latin
American Studies, University of Miami, Florida.
Rivera, R.Z. (March 2001). "New York Ricans from the Hip
Hop Zone." Guest lecture sponsored by the Anthropology
Department, Tufts University, Somerville, Massachusetts.
Rivera, R.Z. (March 2000). "Hip Hop and New York Puerto
Rican Identities." Paper presented at the XXII Congress of
the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida.
Rivera, R.Z. (March 2000). "Butta Pecan Mamis: Images of
Caribbean Latinas in Contemporary Pop Culture." Paper
presented at the First Annual Conference on African Women and
Their Descendants in the Caribbean and Latin America, Baruch
College, New York, New York.
Rivera, R.Z. (November 1999). "Boricuas from the Hip Hop
Zone: Aquí y Allá." Guest lecture sponsored by the
Amerian Civilization Department and the Federación de
Estudiantes Puertorriqueños, Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island.
Rivera, R.Z. (November 1999). "Boricuas from the Hip Hop
Zone: Aquí y Allá." Guest lecture sponsored by the
American Studies Department and Casa Latina, University of
Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts.
Rivera, R.Z. (October 1999). "What's So Real About Real Hip
Hop: Latinas/os and the Urban Arts." Guest lecture
sponsored by the Sociology Department and the Chicana/Chicano
Student Caucus, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Rivera, R.Z. (October 1998). "Policing Morality: The Case
of Underground Rap and Reggae in Puerto Rico." Paper
presented at the Third International Conference of the Puerto
Rican Studies Association, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York.
Rivera, R.Z. (October 1998). "Gender Identities and
Representations in Hip Hop Culture." Paper presented at the
conference Puerto Rican Women at the Turn of the Century: The
Challenge of Double Colonization, Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rivera, R.Z. (September 1998). "Hip Hop, Puerto Ricans and
Ethno-Racial Politics in New York: Between Latinidad and Virtual
Blackness." Paper presented at the XXI Congress of the
Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Rivera, R.Z. (April 1998). "Youth Identities and Power in
Rap Music." Paper presented at the conference Race and the
Construction of the Puerto Rican Identity, Baruch College, New
York, New York.
Rivera, R.Z. (March 1998). "Rap in Puerto Rico: Reflections
from the Margins." Paper presented at the panel
Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora, York College,
Queens, New York.
Rivera, R.Z. (October 1997). "Rap in Puerto Rico:
Reflections from the Margins." Paper presented at the panel
Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora, State
University of New York, Albany, New York.
Rivera, R.Z. (September 1997). "Rap in Puerto Rico:
Reflections from the Margins." Paper presented at the panel
Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora, Hunter
College, New York, New York.
Rivera, R.Z. (September 1996). "Boricuas from the Hip Hop
Zone: Notes on Race and Ethnic Relations in New York City."
Paper presented at the Second International Conference of the
Puerto Rican Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Rivera, R.Z. (August 1996). "Boricuas from the Hip Hop
Zone: Notes on Race and Ethnic Relations in New York City."
Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual
Conference, New York, New York.
Rivera, R.Z. and Oquendo, Carmen (April 1994). "El rap en
Puerto Rico: reclamando espacios culturales." Guest lecture
sponsored by the Hispanic Studies Department, University of
Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
HONORS AND AWARDS
1998 - 1999 Dean K. Harrison Dissertation Fellowship,
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York,
1994 - 1998 MAGNET Fellowship,
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York,
1994 - 1997 National Science Foundation Minority Fellowship
1993 First Prize in essay category, Contornos Literary Contest
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
1992 Honors Degree,
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1988 National Merit Scholarship, College Board of Puerto Rico
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Juan Flores, Full Professor, Department of Sociology, Graduate
Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York
Address: Sociology Department, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
Angel Quintero Rivera, Full Professor, Department of Social
Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Address: Centro de Investigaciones Sociales
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00931
Gerson Borrero, Editor in Chief, El Diario/La Prensa, New York,
New York
Address: 345 Hudson Street, 13th floor
New York, NY 10014
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Raquel Z. Rivera is a freelance journalist
and has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the City University of New
York Graduate Center.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she has lived
in New York City since 1994.
A freelance editor, translator and interpreter, her first
love is writing. Her articles, stories and poetry have appeared
in newspapers El Diario/La Prensa, Siempre and Hoy
in New York, and El Nuevo Día, The San Juan Star
and Claridad in Puerto Rico; and in magazines One
World, Críticas, In the House and Stress. Her academic work has been published in Puerto
Rican Jam: Essays on Puerto Rican Culture and Politics
(University of Minnesota Press, 1997), Revista de Ciencias
Sociales (University of Puerto Rico, 1998), Mambo
Montage: The Latinization of New York (Columbia University
Press, 2001) and Latina/Latino Popular Culture (New York
University Press, 2002). E-mail:
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
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By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars and creative writers from Africa and the Americas. Called one of two significant critical works on Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late 1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of Carter G. Woodson and Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an historical context for understanding 20th-century creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone writers, such as Cuban Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist, and scholar Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the significance of Negritude in Latin America. This collaborative text set the tone for later conferences in which writers and scholars worked together to promote, disseminate, and critique the literature of Spanish-speaking people of African descent. . . . Cited by a literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'." |
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Incognegro: A Memoir of
Exile and Apartheid
By Frank
B. Wilderson III
Wilderson, a professor,
writer and filmmaker from
the Midwest,
presents a gripping account
of his role in the downfall
of South African apartheid
as one of only two black
Americans in the African
National Congress (ANC).
After marrying a South
African law student,
Wilderson reluctantly
returns with her to South
Africa in the early 1990s,
where he teaches
Johannesburg and Soweto
students, and soon joins the
military wing of the ANC.
Wilderson's stinging
portrait of Nelson Mandela
as a petulant elder eager to
accommodate his white
countrymen will jolt readers
who've accepted the
reverential treatment
usually accorded him. After
the assassination of
Mandela's rival, South
African Communist Party
leader Chris Hani, Mandela's
regime deems Wilderson's
public questions a threat to
national security; soon,
having lost his stomach for
the cause, he returns to
America. Wilderson has a
distinct, powerful voice and
a strong story that shuffles
between the indignities of
Johannesburg life and his
early years in Minneapolis,
the precocious child of
academics who barely
tolerate his emerging
political consciousness.
Wilderson's observations
about love within and across
the color line and cultural
divides are as provocative
as his politics; despite
some distracting
digressions, this is a
riveting memoir of
apartheid's last days.—Publishers
Weekly
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Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship
During the Civil War Era
By Christian G. Samito
In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibited their loyalty to the United States and their capacity to act as citizens; they strengthened their American identity in the process. . . . For African American soldiers, proving manhood in combat was only one aspect to their quest for acceptance as citizens. As Samito reveals, by participating in courts-martial and protesting against unequal treatment, African Americans gained access to legal and political processes from which they had previously been excluded. The experience of African Americans in the military helped shape a postwar political movement that successfully called for rights and protections regardless of race. For Irish Americans, soldiering in the Civil War was part of a larger affirmation of republican government and it forged a bond between their American citizenship and their Irish nationalism. The wartime experiences of Irish Americans helped bring about recognition of their full citizenship through naturalization and also caused the United States to pressure Britain to abandon its centuries-old policy of refusing to recognize the naturalization of British subjects abroad. / For Love of Liberty |
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