He was considered a leading pioneer, scholar, and expert in Latin American and Nuyorican culture,[1] often working with his wife Miriam Jiménez Román.
Flores received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College in New York, and both his Masters and Ph.D from Yale University in German Literature.
Flores' work articulates how culture is represented, identified, produced, consumed and regulated within Latino diasporic communities in more recent times.
Flores regularly uses the analogy of seeds being spread and growing where they land to describe the Latino diasporic experience.
[6] On December 2, 2014, Flores died at the age of 71 of an apparent pulmonary embolism at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.