Latino/a Popular Culture

Name: Latino/a Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9780814736258

ISBN-10: 0814736254

ISBN-13: 9780814736258

Edition: 2002

Authors: Michelle Habell-Pallan, Mary Romero

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The editors have brought together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to analyse representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres - media culture, music, film, theatre, art and sports - that are emerging across the US.

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Talking Back: Spanish Media and U.S. Latinidad




Barbie's Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market




The Buena Vista Social Club: The Racial Politics of Nostalgia




"Lemme Stay, I Want to Watch": Ambivalence in Borderlands Cinema




Encrucijadas: Ruben Blades at the Transnational Crossroads




"The Sun Never Sets on MTV": Tijuana NO! and the Border of Music Video




Bidi Bidi Bom Bom: Selena and Tejano Music in the Making of Tejas




Hip Hop and New York Puerto Ricans




Paul Simon's The Capeman: The Staging of Puerto Rican National Identity as Spectacle and Commodity on Broadway




Gender Bending in Latino Theater: Johnny Diego, The His-panic Zone, and Deporting the Divas by Guillermo Reyes




"Don't Call Us Hispanic": Popular Latino Theater in Vancouver




A Decidedly "Mexican" and "American" Semi[er]otic Transference: Frida Kahlo in the Eyes of Gilbert Hernandez




Performing Multiple Identities: Guillermo Gomez-Pena and His "Dangerous Border Crossings"




Learning America's Other Game: Baseball, Race, and the Study of Latinos




Futbol Nation: U.S. Latinos and the Goal of a Homeland




Boxing and Masculinity: The History and (Her)story of Oscar de la Hoya



Contributors


Index