Public Scholarship by José I Fusté
80grados, 2023
Una reflexión ironizante sobre la perenne confusión entre la bomba y la plena reflejada en la cob... more Una reflexión ironizante sobre la perenne confusión entre la bomba y la plena reflejada en la cobertura mediática de la apertura de Bad Bunny en los Grammys del 2023. También trata sobre lo que nos dice sobre la racialización homegeizante de la negritud en Puerto Rico y en la diáspora.
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An ironizing reflection on the perennial confusion between bomba and plena plena--as reflected in coverage of Bad Bunny's opening in the 2023 Grammys-and about what it tells us about the homogeneizing racialization of blackness among Puerto Ricans in the archipelago and the diaspora.
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80grados, Feb 4, 2022
This essay reflects on the historical memory of Puerto Rico's population, particularly in light o... more This essay reflects on the historical memory of Puerto Rico's population, particularly in light of the 500 year anniversary of its capital city's founding and also King Phillip VI's visit to commemorate it. It provides an analysis of the various symbolisms and ironies that have arisen in light of recent attempts to take down the statue of Juan Ponce de León in Old San Juan. It offers suggestions for how to impress alternative memories upon specific locations such as Ballajá and the Plaza San José.
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Este ensayo comparte una reflexión sobre la memoria histórica del pueblo puertorriqueño en relación a la visita del Rey Felipe VI y la conmemoración de la fundación de la ciudad capital hace cinco siglos. También aporta un análisis de los diversos simbolismos e ironías que emergen ante el intento de tumbar la estatua de Ponce de León en el Viejo San Juan. Aporta sugerencias para plasmar memorias alternas en espacios específicos como el de Ballajá y la Plaza San José.
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80grados, 2019
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Small Axe, 2020
This essay uses Vanessa Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomb... more This essay uses Vanessa Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017) to reflect on the different stakes surrounding debates about Schomburg as a historical figure and also as a heuristic for grasping the complex vicissitudes of Afro-Latinx life. It challenges historicizations that presume Afro-Latinidad to be a stable and additive political ontology and that possibly foreclose black Latinx strategies of disidentification or refusal that transcend racial or ethnic nationalisms. It also provokes readers to think of what it would be like to write about Schomburg outside of frameworks that cast him as a heroic rescuer of memory and therefore as an avatar of idealized masculine respectability. Lastly, this essay asks that we consider not just the historical actors and cultural producers that Schomburg devoted himself to illuminating but also how his posthumous heroization cast a shadow over nonanglophone black activist-intellectuals who did not conform to normative early twentieth century US black nationalisms.
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Radical History Review, 2017
This article performs a relational historical reading of the colonial formations that have bound ... more This article performs a relational historical reading of the colonial formations that have bound Puerto Ricans to other colonial subjects throughout the US empire. It begins with an overview of the connections between how the Supreme Court contrived a state of constitutional exception that sanctioned the conquest of Native American tribes and lands, and how between 1901-1921, they derived a similar status for the United States’s insular colonies. It then foregrounds another interrelationship between Puerto Rico and its homologues: connected geostrategic and economic logics from the early to mid 20th century that allowed US government and private interests to reap benefits and profits from the overseas territories while impeding their economic sustainability. Finally, this paper illustrates how today, an updated version of US colonialism through capital investment and debt is substituting the more direct modes of control that the US empire previously employed in its far-flung colonial archipelagos.
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In: Afro-Latinos in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas. Edited by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, and Tianna S. Paschel. New York: Palgrave-McMillan., 2016
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American Quarterly, Mar 2014
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This dissertations challenges how critical scholarship on race and racism in Latin America has tr... more This dissertations challenges how critical scholarship on race and racism in Latin America has traditionally understood racial subalterns in Cuba and Puerto Rico as people who are prevented from acting as black political subjects because of the hegemonic power of discourses of nationhood premised on ideas of mestizaje and racial fraternity. By providing an intellectual history of several important yet largely ignored Cuban and Puerto Rican activists intellectuals of color who lived and worked between the Caribbean and the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, I show that instead of being tricked by creole elite national narratives, they attempted to redefine ideas of nationhood to challenge racism, colonialism, and imperialism at local, national, and transnational levels. More specifically, through an examination of the essays, newspaper articles, personal correspondence, and literary works they left behind, I look at the complicated ways in which figures such as Rafael Serra, Tomas...
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CENTRO Journal, 2015
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New West Indian Guide, 2018
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Public Scholarship by José I Fusté
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An ironizing reflection on the perennial confusion between bomba and plena plena--as reflected in coverage of Bad Bunny's opening in the 2023 Grammys-and about what it tells us about the homogeneizing racialization of blackness among Puerto Ricans in the archipelago and the diaspora.
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Este ensayo comparte una reflexión sobre la memoria histórica del pueblo puertorriqueño en relación a la visita del Rey Felipe VI y la conmemoración de la fundación de la ciudad capital hace cinco siglos. También aporta un análisis de los diversos simbolismos e ironías que emergen ante el intento de tumbar la estatua de Ponce de León en el Viejo San Juan. Aporta sugerencias para plasmar memorias alternas en espacios específicos como el de Ballajá y la Plaza San José.
Papers by José I Fusté
Book Reviews by José I Fusté
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An ironizing reflection on the perennial confusion between bomba and plena plena--as reflected in coverage of Bad Bunny's opening in the 2023 Grammys-and about what it tells us about the homogeneizing racialization of blackness among Puerto Ricans in the archipelago and the diaspora.
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Este ensayo comparte una reflexión sobre la memoria histórica del pueblo puertorriqueño en relación a la visita del Rey Felipe VI y la conmemoración de la fundación de la ciudad capital hace cinco siglos. También aporta un análisis de los diversos simbolismos e ironías que emergen ante el intento de tumbar la estatua de Ponce de León en el Viejo San Juan. Aporta sugerencias para plasmar memorias alternas en espacios específicos como el de Ballajá y la Plaza San José.