Christopher González – författare & böcker

Permissible Narratives

The Promise of Latino/A Literature

AvChristopher González

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

2 465 kr

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Permissible Narratives

The Promise of Latino/A Literature

AvChristopher González

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

712 kr

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Touchdown!: Latinos Breaking Through the Nfl's White Lines

AvFrederick Luis Aldama,Christopher González

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

254 kr

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Reel Latinxs

Representation in U.S. Film and TV

AvFrederick Luis Aldama,Christopher González

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

266 kr

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Latinx representation in the popular imagination has infuriated and befuddled the Latinx community for decades. These misrepresentations and stereotypes soon became as American as apple pie. But these cardboard cutouts and examples of lazy storytelling could never embody the rich traditions and histories of Latinx peoples. Not seeing real Latinxs on TV and film reels as kids inspired the authors to dive deep into the world of mainstream television and film to uncover examples of representation, good and bad. The result: a riveting ride through televisual and celluloid reels that make up mainstream culture.As pop culture experts Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González show, the way Latinx peoples have appeared and are still represented in mainstream TV and film narratives is as frustrating as it is illuminating. Stereotypes such as drug lords, petty criminals, buffoons, and sexed-up lovers have filled both small and silver screens-and the minds of the public. Aldama and González blaze new paths through Latinx cultural phenomena that disrupt stereotypes, breathing complexity into reel Latinx subjectivities and experiences. In this grand sleuthing sweep of Latinx representation in mainstream TV and film that continues to shape the imagination of U.S. society, these two Latinx pop culture authorities call us all to scholarly action.

Galactic Herencia

Latinos in the Star Wars Universe

AvChristopher González

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

500 kr

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In 1977, George Lucas created a galaxy far, far away that somehow contained no Latinos. Forty-seven years later, Diego Luna's Cassian Andor speaks unapologetically accented English as he leads a rebel cell against the Empire, Pedro Pascal's Din Djarin anchors Disney's flagship series, and Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron commands X-wing squadrons with a confidence that refuses to apologize for difference. The transformation didn't happen by accident—it was fought for character by character, film by film, against resistance both corporate and cultural.In Galactic Herencia, Christopher González uses personal, historical, and critical reflection to trace this long arc from erasure to visibility, examining how Latinx actors bring cultural resonance to roles in a fictional universe that never explicitly acknowledges their heritage—and what it means when so few performers must carry the hopes of so many. The book moves from the painful absences of the original trilogy through the breakthrough moments of Rogue One and The Mandalorian, to the current struggles over authentic representation in an era of franchise expansion and toxic fandom. By centering Latinx perspectives on a globally dominant franchise, Galactic Herencia makes visible the cultural work that representation does—demonstrating that genuine inclusion isn't about quotas but about empowering stories that affirm our full humanity.

Reading Junot Diaz

AvChristopher Gonzalez

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

804 kr

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Dominican American author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz has gained international fame for his blended, cross-cultural fiction. Reading Junot Diaz is the first study to focus on his complete body of published works. It explores the totality of his work and provides a concise view of the interconnected and multilayered narrative that weaves throughout Diaz's writings. Christopher Gonzalez analyzes both the formal and thematic features and discusses the work in the context of speculative and global fiction as well as Caribbean and Latino/a culture and language. Topics such as race, masculinity, migration, and Afro-Latinidad are examined in depth. Gonzalez provides a synthesis of the prevailing critical studies of Diaz and offers many new insights into his work.

Resilient Pedagogy

Practical Teaching Strategies to Overcome Distance, Disruption, and Distraction

AvTravis N Thurston,Kacy Lundstromm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

412 kr

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Latinx Studies

The Key Concepts

AvFrederick Aldama,Christopher González

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

1 887 kr

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Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts, including:• Body• Border Theory• Digital Era• Familia• Immigration• Intersectionality• Language• Latinidad/es• Latinofuturism• Narco Cultura• Popular Culture• SportsFully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender, class, education, culture, and globalism.

Latinx Studies

The Key Concepts

AvFrederick Aldama,Christopher González

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

499 kr

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Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts, including:• Body• Border Theory• Digital Era• Familia• Immigration• Intersectionality• Language• Latinidad/es• Latinofuturism• Narco Cultura• Popular Culture• SportsFully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender, class, education, culture, and globalism.

Latinx Studies

The Key Concepts

AvChristopher GonzA!lez,Frederick Aldama

E-bok

Engelska, 2018

572 kr

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Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts, including:

• Body

• Border Theory

• Digital Era

• Familia

• Immigration

• Intersectionality

• Language

• Latinidad/es

• Latinofuturism

• Narco Cultura

• Popular Culture

• Sports

Fully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender, class, education, culture, and globalism.

Latinx Studies

The Key Concepts

AvChristopher GonzA!lez,Frederick Aldama

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2018

572 kr

Läs direkt efter köp

Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts, including:

• Body

• Border Theory

• Digital Era

• Familia

• Immigration

• Intersectionality

• Language

• Latinidad/es

• Latinofuturism

• Narco Cultura

• Popular Culture

• Sports

Fully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender, class, education, culture, and globalism.

Graphic Borders

Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future

AvFrederick Luis Aldama,Christopher González

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

1 097 kr

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From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latino identity and culture. Indeed, Latino fiction and nonfiction narratives are rapidly proliferating in graphic media as diverse and varied in form and content as is the whole of Latino culture today.Graphic Borders presents the most thorough exploration of comics by and about Latinos currently available. Thirteen essays and one interview by eminent and rising scholars of comics bring to life this exciting graphic genre that conveys the distinctive and wide-ranging experiences of Latinos in the United States. The contributors’ exhilarating excavations delve into the following areas: comics created by Latinos that push the boundaries of generic conventions; Latino comic book author-artists who complicate issues of race and gender through their careful reconfigurations of the body; comic strips; Latino superheroes in mainstream comics; and the complex ways that Latino superheroes are created and consumed within larger popular cultural trends. Taken as a whole, the book unveils the resplendent riches of comics by and about Latinos and proves that there are no limits to the ways in which Latinos can be represented and imagined in the world of comics.

Graphic Borders

Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future

AvFrederick Luis Aldama,Christopher González

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

351 kr

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From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latino identity and culture. Indeed, Latino fiction and nonfiction narratives are rapidly proliferating in graphic media as diverse and varied in form and content as is the whole of Latino culture today.Graphic Borders presents the most thorough exploration of comics by and about Latinos currently available. Thirteen essays and one interview by eminent and rising scholars of comics bring to life this exciting graphic genre that conveys the distinctive and wide-ranging experiences of Latinos in the United States. The contributors’ exhilarating excavations delve into the following areas: comics created by Latinos that push the boundaries of generic conventions; Latino comic book author-artists who complicate issues of race and gender through their careful reconfigurations of the body; comic strips; Latino superheroes in mainstream comics; and the complex ways that Latino superheroes are created and consumed within larger popular cultural trends. Taken as a whole, the book unveils the resplendent riches of comics by and about Latinos and proves that there are no limits to the ways in which Latinos can be represented and imagined in the world of comics.

I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat

AvChristopher Gonzalez

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

201 kr

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Big Scary Brown Guy

A Memoir

AvChristopher González

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

195 kr

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Christopher González – författare

Permissible Narratives

Permissible Narratives

Touchdown!: Latinos Breaking Through the Nfl's White Lines

Reel Latinxs

Galactic Herencia

Reading Junot Diaz

Resilient Pedagogy

Latinx Studies

Latinx Studies

Latinx Studies

Latinx Studies

Graphic Borders

Graphic Borders

I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat

Big Scary Brown Guy

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Mina sidor

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Hjälp

Om Bokus

Om Bokus

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