What can Puerto Rican Studies & Bad Bunny’s music teach us about the future of research?
Join us for Episode #4 of the Futures Initiative podcast as Faculty Chair Shelly Eversley sits down with Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro), Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Brim and FI Fellow/PhD Candidate in English, Vallerie Matos for an insightful conversation on Puerto Rican and Diasporican cultural movements.
As a US colony, Puerto Rico offers genealogies of resistance, and models unrelenting efforts towards sovereignty, decolonization, and liberation.This episode explores how Puerto Rican history and cultural production can expand knowledge-making and scholarship in higher education. Guests discuss how the archival work at Centro and the artistry of Bad Bunny are exemplary projects of equity and innovation.
Subscribe to the Futures Initiative’s YouTube channel or listen wherever you get your podcasts to catch this essential conversation about the future of higher education and why the classroom is where democracy learns to think.
show notes
What can Puerto Rican Studies & Bad Bunny’s music teach us about the future of research?
Join us for Episode #4 of the Futures Initiative podcast, dropping January 20th, as Faculty Chair Shelly Eversley sits down with Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro), Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Brim and FI Fellow/PhD Candidate in English, Vallerie Matos for an insightful conversation on Puerto Rican and Diasporican cultural movements.
As a US colony, Puerto Rico offers genealogies of resistance, and models unrelenting efforts towards sovereignty, decolonization, and liberation.This episode explores how Puerto Rican history and cultural production can expand knowledge-making and scholarship in higher education. Guests discuss how the archival work at Centro and the artistry of Bad Bunny are exemplary projects of equity and innovation.
Subscribe to the Futures Initiative’s YouTube channel or listen wherever you get your podcasts to catch this essential conversation about the future of higher education and why the classroom is where democracy learns to think.
highlights
“Bad Bunny has been able to engage with and illuminate so much cultural work and intellectual work through his platform, through his music, and how powerful that is…” – Yomaira Figueroa
“Todos tenemos un sitio en Centro, we all have a place at Centro, tu historia lives here.” – Yomaira Figueroa
“There are folks on the ground [in Puerto Rico] who are working through what would decolonization mean if we were free tomorrow, what will it change?”
Resources
Books
Forthcoming: The Survival of a People, by Yomaira Figueroa
Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature, by Yomaira Figueroa
P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance, by Vanessa Díaz, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Puerto Rico: A National History, by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Credits
Host: Shelly Eversley, FI Faculty Chair
Guests: Yomaira Figueroa and Vallerie Matos
Executive Producer: Peter Susanszky, FI Fellow
Producer: Vallerie Matos, FI Fellow
Editor: Devanté Duncan
Recorded at CUNY TV in New York City.
