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"Contents" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction / Frances Negrón-Muntaner" -- "I. Navigating Sovereignty" -- "1. Contested Sovereignties: Puerto Rico and American Samoa / Fa'anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa and Adriana María Garriga-López" -- "2. Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Recognition / Glen Coulthard" -- "3. The Decolonial Deadlock in Guam / Michael Lujan Bevacqua" -- "4. Recognizing Native Hawaiians: Reality Bites / Davianna Pōmaika'i McGregor" -- "II. Sovereign Bodies" -- "5. Chairmen, Presidents, and Princesses: The Navajo Nation, Gender, and the Politics of Tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale" -- "6. Same-Sex Marriage in the Cherokee Nation: Toward Decolonial Queer Indigeneities / Jessica A. F. Harkins" -- "7. Bloodline Is All I Need?: Sovereignty and Hawaiian Hip-Hop / Stephanie Nohelani Teves" -- "8. Of Shadows and Doubts: White Supremacy, Decolonization, and Black-Indian Relations / Brian Klopotek" -- "9. The Look of Sovereignty: Style and Politics in the Young Lords / Frances Negrón-Muntaner" -- "III. Life Without Sovereignty" -- "10. Sovereignty Still? / Madeline Román" -- "11. Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the "Peculiar" Status of Native Peoples / Mark Rifkin" -- "12. King of the Line: The Sovereign Acts of Jean-Michel Basquiat / Frances Negrón-Muntaner with Yasmin Ramirez" -- "Contributors

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Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferré to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negrón-Muntaner traces some of the many possible itineraries o

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