West Side Story

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/7/2022
  

  West Side Story and the Tragedy of Progressive Hollywood

  by Éric Morales-Franceschini

  Critical debates about the "West Side Story" remake focus on representation, but ignore the politics of Puerto Rico. 

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  12/15/2021
  

  Puerto Rican History Deserves More than a Mural

  by Jacqueline Lazú

  Instead of rehashing "West Side Story," Hollywood should tell the story of Chicago's Young Lords Organization. 

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• 2/24/20
  

  New, Experimental West Side Story Is an Experiment that Goes Awry

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The play has lost its focus and sense of history.

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• 6-13-16
  

  Jets and Sharks Rumble Again in West Side Story of the ‘50s

  by Bruce Chadwick

  What is it about the 1957 play "West Side Story" that has made it one of the most powerful musicals of all time?