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• Ángel Quintero-Rivera (Santurce, Puerto Rico, 1947) is research director of projects in Sociology of Culture. Founding member of CEREP. His books have received.

  Important awards: Cuerpo y cultura (2009) the Franz Fanon Book award for its contribution to Caribbean though and best non -fiction book by the Puerto Rican Studies Association; ¡Salsa, sabor y control! LASA award for best book on Latin America in 200, and Casa de las Americas prize in 1999, for example. He is frequently invited to give lectures in Europe, Latin America and the USA. He has been visiting professor of Harvard, Amherst Five Colleague Council for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, Warwick University in Britain, University of Barcelona, USP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, etc.