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National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago

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I'm a Rutgers student, and I had to read this book for an anthropology class which was taught by Ramos Zayas. While she is an engaging lecturer, and I thoroughly enjoyed the other readings for the class, veiled sentiments in particular, this particular book was extremely difficult to get through. She is a very smart woman, but this book is more written for a graduate level anthropology class rather than an intro course. The vocabulary and sentence structure she uses is very tricky and you pretty much have to have a general idea of anthropology to really understand it.

I am an anthro major but I read this book for my first anthropology course and was like....huh???? in every other paragraph. What's even more shocking is that my TA for the course told us that she had to read this same book for one of her graduate courses and had trouble with it!

I'm an avid reader of ethnographies but this one was just too tough.

Ramos-Zayas delves into topics that are crucial to ethnographic research. She explores the performance of Puerto Ricans and critiques the social inequalities perpetrated against barrio residents.

A disgrace to Puerto Ricans she hits us with vocabulary that she thinks will make her smart but it is a jumbled mess. Try again