Name Juan Flores | Role Professor | |
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Full Name John Martin Flores Education Queens College, City University of New York Books From bomba to hip‑hop, The Diaspora Strikes B, Divided borders, Puerto Rican Arrival In, Salsa Rising: New York Similar People Pedro Pietri, George Yudice, Jean Franco | ||
Occupation Latino Studies Scholar | ||
The diaspora strikes back a conversation with author juan flores
Juan Flores (born John Martin Flores; September 29, 1943 – December 2, 2014) was a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and director of Latino Studies at New York University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College in New York, and both his Masters and Ph.D from Yale University in German Literature. Flores' major areas of interest include social and cultural theory, Latino and Puerto Rican studies, popular music, theory of diaspora and transnational communities and Afro-Latino culture.
Contents
- The diaspora strikes back a conversation with author juan flores
- Social and cultural theory
- Theory of diaspora and transnational communities
- Afro Latino culture
- Death
- Awards
- Selected works
- References
Social and cultural theory
Flores' work articulates how culture is represented, identified, produced, consumed and regulated within Latino diasporic communities in more recent times.
Theory of diaspora and transnational communities
In his book The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning, Flores distinguishes between “new diasporas” and those of earlier time periods by noting the difference in “the intensity and reciprocity of the ties between emigrant or exiled populations and their countries of origin” (Flores, 2009). Flores regularly uses the analogy of seeds being spread and growing where they land to describe the Latino diasporic experience. Flores describes the culture formed in the communities where they reside as dynamic and continuously changing due to the exchange of cultural remittances. He focuses specifically on the transculturation that occurs as groups move from their homeland to the U.S. and back.
Afro-Latino culture
Much of Flores' work on the Afro-Latino culture has focused on its progression in the United States. In The Afro-Latino Reader, he analyzes the way in which Afro-Latinos are racially categorized according to Eurocentered colonial standards and how this categorization changes according to location.
Death
On December 2, 2014, Flores died at the age of 71 of an apparent pulmonary embolism at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He also was afflicted with Guillain–Barré syndrome.
Awards
Flores has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including: