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Food Fight!
Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace
Häftad, 2019
245 kr
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From the racial defamation and mocking tone of “Mexican” restaurants geared toward the Anglo customer to the high-end Latin-inspired eateries with Anglo chefs who give the impression that the food was something unattended or poorly handled that they “discovered” or “rescued” from actual Latinos, …
Sor Juana
Or, the Persistence of Pop
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2018
234 kr
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A sixteenth-century Mexican nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, has become one of the most rebellious and lasting icons in modern times, on par with Mahatma Gandhi, Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, and Nelson Mandela. Referenced in ranchera, tejana, and hip-hop lyrics, and celebrated in popular art as a …
Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics
Häftad, 2017
299 kr
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Whether good or evil, beautiful or ugly, smart or downright silly, able-bodied or differently abled, gay or straight, male or female, young or old, Latinx superheroes in mainstream comic book stories are few and far between. It is as if finding the Latinx presence in the DC and Marvel worlds …
Latino Placemaking and Planning
Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
Häftad, 2018
245 kr
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Latinos are currently the second-largest ethnic group demographically within the United States. By the year 2050 they are projected to number nearly 133 million, or approximately one third of the country’s total population. As the urban component of this population increases, the need for resources …
Latinas and Latinos on TV
Colorblind Comedy in the Post-racial Network Era
Häftad, 2018
232 kr
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Since ABC’s George Lopez Show left the airwaves in 2007 as the only network television show to feature a Latino lead, the representational landscape of Latina and Latino actors has shifted from media invisibility toward an era of increasing inclusion. Sofia Vergara became the highest paid woman and …
Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2019
401 kr
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Today's Latinx motion pictures are built on the struggles-and victories-of prior decades. Earlier filmmakers threw open doors and cleared new paths for those of the twenty-first century to willfully reconstruct Latinx epics as well as the daily tragedies and triumphs of Latinx …
Reel Latinxs
Representation in U.S. Film and TV
Av Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González
Häftad, 2019
273 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 …
Undocuments
Häftad, 2021
267 kr
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How do you document the undocumented? UNDOCUMENTS both poses and attempts to answer this complex question by remixing the forms and styles of the first encyclopedia of the New World, the Florentine Codex, in order to tell a modern story of Greater Mexico. Employing a broad range of writing genres …
Latinx Teens
U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen
Av Trevor Boffone, Cristina Herrera
Häftad, 2022
273 kr
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What can Latinx youth contribute to critical conversations on culture, politics, identity, and representation? Latinx Teens answers this question and more by offering an energetic, in-depth look at how Latinx teenagers influence twenty-first-century U.S. popular culture.In this exciting new book, …
Sound of Exclusion
NPR and the Latinx Public
Häftad, 2021
316 kr
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As a network that claims to represent the nation, NPR asserts unique claims about what it means to be American. In The Sound of Exclusion, Christopher Chávez critically examines how National Public Radio conceptualizes the Latinx listener, arguing that NPR employs a number of industry practices …
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2022
401 kr
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Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume is comprehensive in its coverage while diving into detailed and specific examples as it navigates the complex and ever-changing world of Latinx …
Ready Player Juan
Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games
Av Carlos Gabriel Kelly González
Häftad, 2023
287 kr
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Written for all gaming enthusiasts, this book fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to document how Latinx masculinities are portrayed in high-budget action-adventure video games, inviting Latinxs and others to insert their experiences into games made by an industry that fails to see them.The …
Growing Up in the Gutter
Diaspora and Comics
Häftad, 2024
332 kr
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Growing Up in the Gutter offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre’s growth in stories by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. Through a careful examination of the genre, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo analyzes the complex identity …
Scarred Landscapes
Place, Trauma, and Memory in Caribbean Latinx Art
Häftad, 2025
398 kr
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Scarred Landscapes is a groundbreaking exploration of the rich and complex works of Caribbean Latinx artists. Scholar Stephanie Lewthwaite documents the work of ten influential artists of Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican descent, based in New York City from the 1970s to the present. Through their …
Jane the Citizen
Conditional Belonging and Latinx Representation on TV
Häftad, 2027
280 kr
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What does it mean to belong in the United States—and what does it cost? Jane the Citizen confronts one of the most urgent questions in contemporary cultural life by turning to an unlikely archive: the CW's celebrated telenovela-inspired series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019).Litzy Galarza argues that …
Queer Indigenous Cinemas
Sovereign Genders from Seven Directions
Häftad, 2026
331 kr
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The seven Indigenous directions—east, south, west, north, up, down, and center—provide a map of understanding gender in media history.In Queer Indigenous Cinemas, scholarGabriel S. Estrada offers an analysis of queer Indigenous media from the Americas, the Pacific, and the Caribbean. This …
Two Vatos Talk Pop Cultura
Latinx TV, Film, and Futures Unscripted
Av Frederick Luis Aldama, Peter Murrieta
Häftad, 2026
239 kr
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Two Vatos Talk Pop Cultura brings a leading Latinx media studies scholar, Frederick Luis Aldama, together with an award-winning television writer and producer, Peter Murrieta, to examine how Latinx representation has evolved—and stagnated—across seven decades of American TV, film, and pop …
Galactic Herencia
Latinos in the Star Wars Universe
Häftad, 2027
297 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 …
Latinx Fandoms
Häftad, 2027
418 kr
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What makes one a fan? What's the difference between cultivating taste for a genre and dedicating time, space, labor, and resources to collecting, practicing, and following in a singularly focused way? What does fandom look like and what does it do when racialized communities embrace media that …
Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities
Av Arturo J. Aldama, Frederick Luis Aldama
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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Latinx hypersexualized lovers or kingpin predators pulsate from our TVs, smartphones, and Hollywood movie screens. Tweets from the executive office brand Latinxs as bad-hombre hordes and marauding rapists and traffickers. A-list Anglo historical figures like Billy the Kid haunt us with their toxic …
Chicano-Chicana Americana
Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros
Häftad, 2023
297 kr
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Chicano-Chicana Americana is a cultural history of Mexican Americans in film, television, and theater. Through biographical sketches of performers such as Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros, this work asserts Mexican Americans’ proper place in the national narratives of …
