Putting Puerto Rico’s best (black) face forward: Ramón Rivero’s “Diplo” and racialized performances of liberation
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DOI: 10.1057/s41276-019-00174-2
Abstract: Ramón Rivero was an immensely popular blackface performer in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico known for his character-turned-persona, Diplo. This laughter-inducing negrito created a vehicle for Rivero’s political critiques of US imperialism and humanitarianism. For many in… read more here.
Keywords: rico; puerto rico; rivero; blackface ... See more keywords