Title Latino/a Popular Culture

Published New York : NYU Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages) Contents 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 Summary 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 representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Hispanic American arts. Hispanic American athletes. Hispanic Americans and mass media. Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity. Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs Popular culture -- United States. Hispanic American arts Hispanic American athletes Hispanic Americans and mass media Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs Popular culture United States Form Electronic book Author Romero, Mary ISBN 9780814790816 081479081X

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