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In anticipation of the (now virtual) New York Caribbean Week and the annual Labor Day Parade, this August we’re highlighting artworks in the Museum’s collection that celebrate the presence of Caribbean culture and its diasporas.

In his series Pure Plantainum, Miguel Luciano uses the plantain, a cultural symbol of the Caribbean, to explore the colonial dialogue between Puerto Rico and the United States. By coating an actual plantain in platinum, Luciano creates a contradictory object — mirroring the associations of the plantain itself — that is outwardly precious yet inwardly decomposing. The plantain has long had a complex symbolism in the Caribbean, tracing back to plantations, where sap stains on clothing easily identified plantation workers and became associated with race and class. The saying “la mancha del plátano” (the stain of the plantain) was used to speak of those with darker skin, as if blackness, Luciano says, was equated “to a stain upon skin or culture.” Plátano Pride confronts these anti-Black and colorist connotations while acknowledging contemporary changes in culture and identity, especially among Latinx youth in the United States, who have instead embraced the fruit as a symbol of cultural heritage and Afro-Latinx and Latinx pride.

Receta de Ceviche de corvina con chips de platano macho Publicado por Escuela de Cocina y Pasteleria Terra de Escudella el 14 de junio de 2023 Requiere 30 min, para cuatro personas. Ingredientes · 500 gr de corvina · 100gr de gambas congeladas · 1 cebolla roja · 3 tomates rojos · 3 limones · 1 lima · 1 trozo jengibre · Cilantro fresco · Sal pimienta salsa Perrins · Aceite de oliva · 1 mango ·…