Juan Flores is currently Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. For many years he has taught Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of "Divided Borders, La venganza de Cortijo, From Bomba to Hip-Hop," and "Poetry in East Germany," and co-editor of "On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture," Among his other publications are the translations of "Memoirs of Bernardo Vega" and "Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortij...