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 Arlene Dávila
Professor, Anthropology, Social and Cultural Analysis (American Studies)
Ph.D. 1996, CUNY; M.A. 1990, NYU; B.A. 1987, Tufts University.
I am a cultural anthropologist interested in popular culture, media,
cities, and urban culture. I’m most interested in Puerto Ricans
in the eastern U.S., and Latinos nationwide. I’m now examining
the so called “mainstreaming” and
“republicanization” of U/S. Latinos.
Publications
2004 Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the Neoliberal City.
University of California Press.
2001 Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People. Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press.
2001 Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York (edited volume,
co-editor with Agustin Lao). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
1997 Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press.
Sample Articles
2004 "El Barrio’s ‘We Are Watching You Campaign:’ On
the Politics of Inclusion in a Latinized Museum." AZTLAN: A
Journal of Chicano Studies. 30 (1): 153-178.
2004 "Empowered Culture? New York City’s empowerment Zone
and the Selling of El Barrio." Annals of the American Academy
of Political and
Social Science. 594: 49-64.
"2003 Dreams of Place, Housing Struggles". Journal of the
Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Volume 15 (1): 112-137.
2002 "Ethnicity, Fieldwork, and the Cultural Capital that Gets Us
There: Reflections from U.S. Hispanic Marketing". Aztlán:
A Journal of Chicano Studies.
2000 "Mapping Latinidad: Spanish, English and 'Spanglish' in the
Hispanic TV Landscape". Television and New Media. Vol. 1(1):73-92.
A revised version reprinted in Globalization on the Line: Culture,
Citizenship and Capital at U.S. Borders. Claudia Sadowski-Smith,
editor. St. Martin Press.
1999 "Culture in the Battleground: From Nationalist to Pan-Latino
Projects". Museum Anthropology. 23(3)26-41. Reprinted in Mambo
Montage: The Latinization of New York. (Co-edited with Agustin Lao).
1999 "Latinizing Culture: Art, Museums and the Politics of U.S. Multicultural
Encompassment". Cultural Anthropology. 14(2):1-23.
1999 "Crafting Culture: Selling and Contesting Authenticity in Puerto
Rico's Informal Economy". Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.
Vol. 18. (159-170).
1998 "El Kiosko Budweiser: The Making of a ‘National’ TV
Show in Puerto Rico". American Ethnologist. 25 (3):452-470.
1998 "Local and Diasporic Tainos: Rethinking Taino Reality and Imagery". Latino Review of Books. 3(3): 2-10. Reprinted in Taino Revival:
Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural Politics.
New York: Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Edited by Gabriel Haslip-Viera.
Pp. 11-30.
Rufus D. Smith
Hall
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New York, NY 10003 |
telephone: 212.998.8550
fax: 212.995.4014
anthropology@nyu.edu |
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