Acknowledgments; 1. Mobilizing the Latina Myth; 2. Dolores Del Rio Dances across the Imperial Color Line; 3. Carmen Miranda Shakes It for the Nation; 4. Rita Hayworth and the Cosmetic Borders of Race; 5. Rita Moreno, the Critically Acclaimed "All-Round Ethnic"; 6. Jennifer Lopez, Racial Mobility, and the New Urban/Latina Commodity; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary
Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history began as a dancer or danced onscreen. Introducing the concepts of "inbetween-ness" and "racial mobility" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, this book focuses on the careers of Dolores Del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Carmen Miranda, Rita Moreno, and Jennifer Lopez and helps readers better understand how the United States grapples with race, gender, and sexuality through dancing bodies on screen
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index
