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Latino/a Popular Culture.

While the presence of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture in the United States buttresses the much-heralded Latin Explosion, the images themselves are often contradictory. Latino/a Popular Culture brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to analyze r...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Habell-Pall'an, Michelle
Otros Autores: Romero, Mary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Media/Culture
  • 1 Talking Back: Spanish Media and U.S. Latinidad
  • 4 “Lemme Stay, I Want to Watchâ€?: Ambivalence in Borderlands Cinema
  • 3 The Buena Vista Social Club: The Racial Politics of Nostalgia
  • 2 Barbieâ€?s Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market
  • Music
  • 5 Encrucijadas: Rubén Blades at the Transnational Crossroads
  • 6 “The Sun Never Sets on MTVâ€?: Tijuana NO! and the Border of Music Video
  • 7 Bidi Bidi Bom Bom: Selena and Tejano Music in the Making of Tejas
  • 8 Hip Hop and New York Puerto RicansTheater and Art
  • 9 Paul Simonâ€?s The Capeman: The Staging of Puerto Rican National Identity as Spectacle and Commodity on Broadway
  • 10 Gender Bending in Latino Theater: Johnny Diego, The Hispanic Zone, and Deporting the Divas by Guillermo Reyes
  • 11 “Donâ€?t Call Us Hispanicâ€?: Popular Latino Theater in Vancouver
  • 12 A Decidedly “Mexicanâ€? and “Americanâ€? Semi[er]otic Transference: Frida Kahlo in the Eyes of Gilbert Hernandez
  • 13 Performing Multiple Identities: Guillermo Gómez-PeÃ"a and His Dangerous Border CrossingsSports
  • 14 Learning Americaâ€?s Other Game: Baseball, Race, and the Study of Latinos
  • 15 FÃðtbol Nation: U.S. Latinos and the Goal of a Homeland
  • 16 Boxing and Masculinity: The History and (Her)story of Oscar de la Hoya
  • Contributors
  • Index