Las camisetas de Vieques: mitología y militancia de una lucha popular

Las camisetas de Vieques is a hybrid text that examines the popular meaning of anti-U.S. Navy t-shirts as articulations of ancestral memory and political militancy. Designs with verbal and visual messages printed on t-shirts as popular initiatives allow for an understanding of pro-Vieques political practices by subaltern sectors as expressions and narratives of shared and/or self identities within the complexity of the pacifist movement of civil disobedience. The study of these t-shirts as texts highlights the hybrid meanings of these identities by comparing the struggles of the 1970s and those of the new millennium. Contrary to any kind of simplifying intent, the text suggests a move away from the orthodox approaches of traditional essentialist reiterations and current academic impositions. The result is risky but stimulating.