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Exploring the Latino Metropolis: A Brief Urban Cultural History of US Latinos Main MenuProject OverviewLatinos in Los AngelesThe experience, history, and culture of Latinos in LA.The New York Latino MetropolisAn in-depth look at the Latino experience in the greater New York City areaLatinos in ChicagoLatinos in Miami/South FloridaDigital Projects 748488f59c909decd561741202e4263bd2231f52Baldwin Wallace University
Nuyorican Poetry
1media/NYC_Top_of_the_Rock_Pano.jpgmedia/Nuyorican Poets Cafe.jpg2016-02-17T12:14:47-08:00Sara Ahmada7f5104e88131cbc1191d5d79b5720171c6dbf8a80947Art and Identityimage_header2016-03-21T09:52:41-07:00Digital Projects 748488f59c909decd561741202e4263bd2231f52Poetry has always been significant in New York City, but the fusion of the latino identity with it created something only that this city could lay claim to. During the 60’s poetry, written and verbal, saw a rise in popularity and began incorporating themes of politics, race, identity, struggle, and so forth. These themes resonated with the Hispanic, mostly Puerto Rican, sector of the city as they faced many of the things discussed in them as they battled “ethnic/racial and institutional invisibility” in the city (Noel). This gave rise to Nuyorican Poetry, a style all its own; “documenting the reality of [Puerto Rican] communities” and would eventually come to include broader ideas such as “gentrification of the barrio, and the national and global marketing of identity” (Noel). With the progression of Nuyorican Poetry, there came a need to find a space for all the artists. In 1973, writer and poet Miguel Algarin began offering his living room salon as a place of congregation for all of them, but as “there were too many artists to fit in Algarin’s lining room” they would need to move only a few years. (History) In order to accommodate so many people, they rented a bar “which was christened The Nuyorican Poets Café" (History). Though called Nuyorican, the café caters to a variety of underrepresented artists though it is still at the “core of a variety of Puerto Rican poetics”(Noel, xiii). The connection between Nuyorican poetry and the city it is partially named after is undeniable and shows the way the city has shaped part of the Latino identity.
“It seems clear that Nuyorican poetry is inseparable from the city, from the distinctly cosmopolitan space and diasporic histories of New York”(Noel 165).
12016-02-17T12:11:58-08:00Sara Ahmada7f5104e88131cbc1191d5d79b5720171c6dbf8aPoets, Dancers, Theater, and Murals: Latino Art in New YorkJacob Sandstrom9plain2016-03-20T12:13:35-07:00Jacob Sandstromeecc60b3cab0ee1def9c1423c5c8f58428a944e4
