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From Bananas to Buttocks

Author : Myra Mendible
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029277849X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis From Bananas to Buttocks by : Myra Mendible

Download or read book From Bananas to Buttocks written by Myra Mendible and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the exuberant excesses of Carmen Miranda in the "tutti frutti hat" to the curvaceous posterior of Jennifer Lopez, the Latina body has long been a signifier of Latina/o identity in U.S. popular culture. But how does this stereotype of the exotic, erotic Latina "bombshell" relate, if at all, to real Latina women who represent a wide spectrum of ethnicities, national origins, cultures, and physical appearances? How are ideas about "Latinidad" imagined, challenged, and inscribed on Latina bodies? What racial, class, and other markers of identity do representations of the Latina body signal or reject? In this broadly interdisciplinary book, experts from the fields of Latina/o studies, media studies, communication, comparative literature, women's studies, and sociology come together to offer the first wide-ranging look at the construction and representation of Latina identity in U.S. popular culture. The authors consider such popular figures as actresses Lupe Vélez, Salma Hayek, and Jennifer Lopez; singers Shakira and Celia Cruz; and even the Hispanic Barbie doll in her many guises. They investigate the media discourses surrounding controversial Latinas such as Lorena Bobbitt and Marisleysis González. And they discuss Latina representations in Lupe Solano's series of mystery books and in the popular TV shows El Show de Cristina and Laura en América. This extensive treatment of Latina representation in popular culture not only sheds new light on how meaning is produced through images of the Latina body, but also on how these representations of Latinas are received, revised, and challenged.

Latinas Talk Back

Author : Jillian Baez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Latinas Talk Back written by Jillian Baez and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the discursive construction of the Latina body across media institutions, popular culture, and lived experience. In particular, it asks: what is the discursive construction of the Latina body in mainstream U.S. and Latina/o popular culture and how do Latinas engage with these representations of their bodies? Within the last ten years, mainstream popular culture has represented and circulated Latina imagery that foregrounds the hypervisibility of both spectacular bodies, such as Jennifer Lopez, and ordinary bodies, such as undocumented female migrants. Given the historical under-representation of Latinas in mainstream U.S. media and Latinas' limited access to self-representation, these texts mark a shift in contemporary popular culture. This dissertation underscores this shift by exploring various popular culture texts over the last ten years (1997-2007) that foreground the Latina body in relation to how Latinas construct their own bodies vis-a-vis these representations. Drawing from and extending transnational feminist media studies and theories of cultural citizenship, this dissertation illuminates the mediated representations and experiences of Latinas. Using a discourse ethnography methodology, the study employs a multidimensional and multiperspectival approach that combines textual analysis with multi-sited participant observation, interviews and focus groups to document how symbolic and material bodies collapse in everyday life. Overall, this dissertation illustrates how Latinas perform cultural citizenship through their readings (particularly critiques) of specific media texts, creation of a "new" ideal Latina femininity and sexuality that disrupts dominant discourses, media activism, and for some, cultural production (e.g., poetry, theater) that challenges media representations.

Voces Latinas

Author : Beth Johnson
Publisher : Townsend Press
ISBN 13 : 1591944104
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Voces Latinas written by Beth Johnson and published by Townsend Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latino TV

Author : Mary Beltrán
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479810754
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Latino TV written by Mary Beltrán and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television Whose stories are told on television? Who are the heroes and heroines, held up as intriguing, lovable, and compelling? Which characters are fully realized, rather than being cardboard villains and sidekicks? And who are our storytellers? The first-ever account of Latino/a participation and representation in US English-language television, Latino TV: A History offers a sweeping study of key moments of Chicano/a and Latino/a representation and authorship since the 1950s. Drawing on archival research, interviews with dozens of media professionals who worked on or performed in these series, textual analysis of episodes and promotional materials, and analysis of news media coverage, Mary Beltrán examines Latina/o representation in everything from children’s television Westerns of the 1950s, Chicana/o and Puerto Rican activist-led public affairs series of the 1970s, and sitcoms that spanned half a century, to Latina and Latino-led series in the 2000s and 2010s on broadcast, cable, and streaming outlets, including George Lopez, Ugly Betty, One Day at a Time, and Vida. Through the exploration of the histories of Latina/o television narratives and the authors of those narratives, Mary Beltrán sheds important light on how Latina/os have been included—and, more often, not—in the television industry and in the stories of the country writ large.

Talking #browntv

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814255599
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Talking #browntv written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversation on the representations of Latina/os in American TV and film in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Latina/o Communication Studies Today

Author : Angharad N. Valdivia
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820486284
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis Latina/o Communication Studies Today by : Angharad N. Valdivia

Download or read book Latina/o Communication Studies Today written by Angharad N. Valdivia and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together contemporary and exciting research within communication and Latina/o studies. Written in a clear, accessible manner and based on original research drawn from a broad range of paradigms - from textual analysis to reception studies and political economy - Latina/o Communication Studies Today provides an invaluable resource and excellent case studies for those already conducting research and teaching in Latina/o communication studies. The media studied include radio, television, cinema, magazines, and newspapers.

Latina/os and the Media

Author : Angharad N. Valdivia
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745640087
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Latina/os and the Media written by Angharad N. Valdivia and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship with Latina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property such stars as Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera; on the other they contribute to the role of Latina/os as eternal foreigners, having continually to assert their belonging and citizenship. Latina/os and the Media brings together the scholarship of communication studies scholars working on issues of Latinidad and presents it in a coherent, vibrant and accessible form to shed light on the complex relationship between Latina/os and the media. Latina/os and the Media includes the coverage of the following: the participation of Latina/os in media production; the forms in which Latina/os are represented in media; the ways that Latina/os interpret media and that other audiences interpret Latina/os in the media; and the social scientific effects of the forms in which Latina/os are represented on Latina/os in particular and culture at large. The book draws on a rich set of examples to illustrate its conclusions. It will be the first port of call for anyone wanting to know about the relationship between Latina/os and the media, including for those students taking classes on minorities and the media, or issues around race and diversity.

Contemporary Latina/o Media

Author : Arlene M. Dávila
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479848115
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Latina/o Media written by Arlene M. Dávila and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural politics creating and consuming Latina/o mass media. Just ten years ago, discussions of Latina/o media could be safely reduced to a handful of TV channels, dominated by Univision and Telemundo. Today, dramatic changes in the global political economy have resulted in an unprecedented rise in major new media ventures for Latinos as everyone seems to want a piece of the Latina/o media market. While current scholarship on Latina/o media have mostly revolved around important issues of representation and stereotypes, this approach does not provide the entire story. In Contemporary Latina/o Media, Arlene Dávila and Yeidy M. Rivero bring together an impressive range of leading scholars to move beyond analyses of media representations, going behind the scenes to explore issues of production, circulation, consumption, and political economy that affect Latina/o mass media. Working across the disciplines of Latina/o media, cultural studies, and communication, the contributors examine how Latinos are being affected both by the continued Latin Americanization of genres, products, and audiences, as well as by the whitewashing of "mainstream" Hollywood media where Latinos have been consistently bypassed. While focusing on Spanish-language television and radio, the essays also touch on the state of Latinos in prime-time television and in digital and alternative media. Using a transnational approach, the volume as a whole explores the ownership, importation, and circulation of talent and content from Latin America, placing the dynamics of the global political economy and cultural politics in the foreground of contemporary analysis of Latina/o media.

In Search of Belonging

Author : Jillian M Baez
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050460
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Belonging written by Jillian M Baez and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Belonging explores the ways Latina/o audiences in general, and women in particular, make sense of and engage both mainstream and Spanish-language media. Jillian M. Báez’s eye-opening ethnographic analysis draws on the experiences of a diverse group of Latinas in Chicago. In-depth interviews reveal Latinas viewing media images through a lens of citizenship. These women search for nothing less than recognition—and belonging—through representations of Latinas in films, advertising, telenovelas, and TV shows like Ugly Betty and Modern Family. Báez's personal interactions and research merge to create a fascinating portrait, one that privileges the perspectives of the women themselves as they consume media in complex, unpredictable ways. Innovative and informed by a wealth of new evidence, In Search of Belonging answers important questions about the ways Latinas perform citizenship in today’s America.

Speaking from the Body

Author : Angie Chabram
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816544506
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Speaking from the Body written by Angie Chabram and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In compelling first-person accounts, Latinas speak freely about dealing with serious health episodes as patients, family caregivers, or friends. They show how the complex interweaving of gender, class, and race impacts the health status of Latinas—and how family, spirituality, and culture affect the experience of illness. Here are stories of Latinas living with conditions common to many: hypertension, breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, dementia, Parkinson’s, lupus, and hyper/hypothyroidism. By bringing these narratives out from the shadows of private lives, they demonstrate how such ailments form part of the larger whole of Latina lives that encompasses family, community, the medical profession, and society. They show how personal identity and community intersect to affect the interpretation of illness, compliance with treatment, and the utilization of allopathic medicine, alternative therapies, and traditional healing practices. The book also includes a retrospective analysis of the narratives and a discussion of Latina health issues and policy recommendations. These Latina cultural narratives illustrate important aspects of the social contexts and real-world family relationships crucial to understanding illness. Speaking from the Body is a trailblazing collection of personal testimonies that integrates professional and personal perspectives and shows that our understanding of health remains incomplete if Latina cultural narratives are not included.

Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising

Author : Kim Golombisky
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498528279
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising written by Kim Golombisky and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and advertising are both globally ubiquitous. Yet advertising remains one of the most unabashedly misogynist, heterosexist, and racist industries. This edited volume of original unpublished chapters is the first ever to offer explicitly feminist views on advertising. Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising provides feminist analyses of the historical relationships between the advertising industry and the women’s movement in the United States. Contributors consider the ways that advertisers encode race, ethnicity, gender, and heteronormativity into advertising practices and messages exported around the world. They further explore the ways that intersectional audiences such as women of color, Latinas, and lesbian and gay audiences decode, reinterpret, resist, and subvert advertising. With this book, the editors and contributors address the present lack of feminist scholarship, research, knowledge, or curriculum in advertising, and begin a more honest dialogue about diversity and intersectional gender in the advertising academy as well as the advertising industry.

Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands

Author : Arturo J. Aldama
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253008778
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands written by Arturo J. Aldama and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.

Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States

Author : Juanita Heredia
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319723928
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States by : Juanita Heredia

Download or read book Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States written by Juanita Heredia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent in the United States, Juanita Heredia reveals that, through their transnational experiences, they have developed multicultural identities throughout different regions and cities across the country. However, these authors' works also exemplify a return to their heritage in South America through memory and travel, often showing that they maintain strong cultural and literary ties across national borders. As such, they have created a new chapter in trans-American history by finding new ways of imagining South America from their formation and influences in the U.S.

Musical ImagiNation

Author : Maria Elena Cepeda
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081471692X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Musical ImagiNation written by Maria Elena Cepeda and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long associated with the pejorative cliches of the drug-trafficking trade and political violence, contemporary Colombia has been unfairly stigmatized. This study of the Miami music industry and Miami's growing Colombian community asserts that popular music provides an alternative common space for imagining and enacting Colombian identity.

Latina Histories and Cultures

Author : Montse Feu
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 1518507603
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Latina Histories and Cultures written by Montse Feu and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of academic essays introduces new research on Latina histories and cultures from the mid-nineteenth century to 1980. Examining a wide range of source materials, including personal and institutional archives, literature and oral history, the authors of the fifteen articles use transnational approaches and Latina feminist theory to remind us of a principle that is still too often forgotten: that sex and gender should be centered as crucial problematics in the study of the long history of Latina/o/x literature and culture. Applying an intersectional methodology that analyzes gender in relation to numerous identities—race, class, sexuality, language and nationality—the scholars explore diverse subjects such as the literary work of historical Latina authors Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Maria Cristina Mena; the travails of Basque women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and Chicana activism in Wyoming in the 1970s and 1980s. The book is divided into four sections: Feminist Readings of Latina Authors; Gender, Politics and Power in the Spanish-Language Press; Radical Latinas’ Politics; and Reclaiming Community, Reclaiming Knowledge. In their introduction, editors Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla map significant elements in the practice of Latina feminist recovery and suggest the importance of using queer studies frameworks and speculative approaches to archives in order to amplify queer, Afro-Latina/o and indigenous voices. Published as part of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Series, Latina Histories and Cultures continues the efforts to rescue the written legacy of the Hispanic population in what has become the United States and will be required reading for academics and students in a variety of disciplines.

Latina Condition

Author : Richard Delgado
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814720404
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Latina Condition written by Richard Delgado and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic published their definitive Critical Race Theory, a compact introduction to the field that explained, in straightforward language, the origins, principal themes, leading voices, and new directions of this important movement in legal thought. Since then, critical race theory has gone on to influence numerous other fields of scholarship, and the Delgado and Stefancic primer has remained an indispensible guide for students and teachers. Delgado and Stefancic have revised the book to include material on key issues such as colorblind jurisprudence, Latino-Critical scholarship, immigration, and the rollback of affirmative action. This second edition introduces readers to important new voices in fields outside of law, including education and psychology, and offers greatly expanded issues for discussion, updated reading lists, and an extensive glossary of terms.

Representing Latina/x Reproductive Decision-Making

Author : Melissa Huerta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793626987
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Representing Latina/x Reproductive Decision-Making written by Melissa Huerta and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing Latina/x Reproductive Decision Making examines representations of reproductive decisions in cultural texts and engages with scholarship on Latina/x representation to interrogate what these representations mean for Latinx popular culture. Melissa Huerta demonstrates that cultural texts ranging from the work of Teatro Luna and television series like Jane the Virgin and Vida to the film Quinceañera and Favianna Rodriguez’s artwork can challenge traditional notions of Latina/x reproductive decisions, pointing to more inclusive understandings of people’s experiences. Huerta argues for the importance of cultural representation in theater, television, film and art and analyzes the roles language and images play in shaping meaning. This book will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, gender studies, Latin American studies, and film and media studies.