Prologue -- 1. Practicing a Feminist Nuyorican Aesthetic : We Are All Honorary Nuyoricans -- 2. Gendering the Genealogies of the Nuyorican Aesthetic : The Young Lords, Neorican Seminar, and Nuyorican Poets Café -- 3. The Founding Mothers of the Nuyorican Poets Café -- 4. Masculinity in Hip Hop, Spoken Word, and Slam Poetry -- 5. “It Was Definitely a Family Affair” : La Bruja’s Boogie Rican Boulevard -- 6. Performing Afro-Latinidad : Nilaja Sun’s La Nubia Latina and Black and Blue -- 7. A Hip Hop Feminist Approach to Aya de León’s Thieves in the Temple : A Hip Hop Feminist Approach to Aya de León’s Thieves in the Temple -- 8. Beyond the Tangible : Performing Spirituality in Nuyorican Performances and Hip Hop Theater -- Epilogue.

"The Nuyorican Poets Café has for the past forty years provided a space for multicultural artistic expression and a platform for the articulation of Puerto Rican and black cultural politics. The Café's performances-poetry, music, hip hop, comedy, and drama-have been studied in detail, but until now, little attention has been paid to the voices of its women artists. Through archival research and interview, Nuyorican Feminist Performance examines the contributions of 1970s and '80s performeras and how they challenged the Café's gender politics. It also looks at recent artists who have built on that foundation with hip hop performances that speak to contemporary audiences. The book spotlights the work of foundational artists such as Sandra María Esteves, Martita Morales, Luz Rodríguez, and Amina Muñoz, before turning to contemporary artists La Bruja, Mariposa, Aya de León, and Nilaja Sun, who infuse their poetry and solo pieces with both Nuyorican and hip hop aesthetics." -- Baksida.