Book Presentation with Jonathan Goldman and Rochelle Rives
Join us for a special evening with Jonathan Ezra Goldman in conversation with Rochelle Rives about Puerto Rican culture in New York during the 1920s!
Goldman and Rives will delve into the history of critical Puerto Rican figures such as Pura Belpré, Jesús Colón, Luis Muñoz Marín, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and Bernardo Vega.
Jonathan’s book, Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange, will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Learn more about the book here:
Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City, unearthing stories of everyday life and marginalized communities. In sections that intertwine entertainment, politics, art, technology, crime, shopping, eating, and recreation, Jonathan Ezra Goldman portrays sweeping events such as the Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, and immigration reform through anecdotes of individual experiences that counter the era’s popular conceptions of ballooning wealth and uproarious celebration.
Learn more about the panelists:
Jonathan Goldman (he/him) is Professor in the Humanities Department at New York Institute of Technology and resident of the James Joyce Society. His previous books include Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity and Joyce and the Law. He has additionally authored over 50 articles about literature and its cultural contexts. A native New Yorker, he still lives in the city.
Rochelle Rives is Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York. While teaching CUNY students writing and literature for the past twenty years, Rives has authored two books, including The New Physiognomy: Face, Form and Modern Expression, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024. In this book, Rives roots some of our modern facial predicaments–related to AI, facial recognition technology and even Botox–in various critical, literary and scientific accounts of the meaning of expression beginning in the late nineteenth century. She is currently at work on a new project, Just Faking It, on fakes, frauds and forgeries in the age of digital media and art. She lives in Washington Heights.