Marisol Negrón

 
Courses Taught:
AMST 201 Latinos/as in the U.S., AMST 353 Latino/a Border Cultures,
AMST 350L Race, Class, and Gender: Issues in Diversity, AMST 605 Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality

Recent Publications:
“Puerto Rican Rhythms: The Buying and Selling of Salsa Music in the U.S.” Odyssey: Stanford University Research Magazine. 1.1 (Spring 2002): 26-27.
 
Lazú, Jacqueline and Marisol Negrón. “Languages in Dialogue: Reflections on the 4th International Congress of the Puerto Rican Studies Association.” Centro Journal.  XII.1 (Fall 2000): 117-123.
 
Work in Progress:
Negrón, Marisol. Made in New York, Puerto Rico: Commodification, Authority, and Representation during the 1970s Salsa “Boom”
 
Using literary analysis, ethnography, and archival research, my project explores the aesthetic form of the music and the social relations from which it emerged. By emphasizing the impact of society and culture on market forces, I show that the commodification of salsa articulated and reinforced a Nuyorican subjectivity. I trace the development of salsa from the mid-1960s through its “boom” in the early to mid-1970s and its eventual decline toward the end of that decade. Employing literary and cultural studies methodologies, I demonstrate that salsa entered into a series of social relations where issues of authority and ownership were largely articulated by alternately challenging and reinforcing discourses of ethno-racial, gendered, sexual, and national identities.
 
Negrón, Marisol, Dania López García, María L. Ruiz, Lorraine D. Hanley, and María del Carmen Cifuentes (eds.) From Theory to the Classroom and Back: A Manual for the Teaching of Spanish as a Heritage Language.

Ongoing Research Interests:
Latino Literary and Cultural Studies
19th and 20th-Century Caribbean Literature
Popular Culture and Commodification
Transhemispheric Identities
Language and Linguistics
Emphasis on race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and diasporic and transnational identities

Office location: W-5-110
Office phone: (617) 287-6673
Email: Marisol.Negron@umb.edu