"Sound and Image: Marc Anthony's Salsa Romantica and Puerto Rican/Arab Solidarity," by Frances R. Aparicio, director, Latina/o Studies, professor, Spanish & Portuguese, Northwestern University.
Aparicio is the author of several important and widely read critical texts in Latina/o Studies, including Listening to Salsa (1998) and has edited numerous anthologies, including Tropicalizations (1997), Musical Migrations(2003), Hibridismos culturales (2006), and The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature (2012).
Her research interests include Latina and Latino literary and cultural studies, the cultural politics of U.S. Latina/o languages, Latina/o popular music and dance, literary and cultural translation, cultural hybridity, transnationalism, Latinidad, and new research on “intra-Latina/o” subjects.
For more information, visit the Latina/o Studies website.