ISBN:
9781137452870
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (238 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship : Representations in Media
DDC:
305.8687295
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Puerto Ricans in mass media
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Soldiers in mass media
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Mass media and minorities ; United States
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Puerto Ricans ; United States ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Puerto Ricans ; United States ; Ethnic relations
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror, focusing on social networking sites, user-generated content, and web memorials. Manúel Avilés-Santiago is Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at Arizona State University, USA.
Abstract:
〈p 〉Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror, focusing on social networking sites, user-generated content, and web memorials
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Causalities of War: Puerto Ricans in the US Military; Fuera La Marina de Vieques! Discourses of Antimilitarism in Puerto Rico; Digitizing the War Zones; From MySpace to Facebook: Same War, Different SNS; The Boricua Soldier Goes Online; Articulating Ethnonational Identities in the Contact Zone; Research Design: On How to Traverse the Digital Contact Zones; Harvesting for Self Representations in the Digital Battlefield; Organization of the Book
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Saving Pvt. Fulano de Tal: Representations of Puerto Rican Soldiers in Television and FilmPuerto Rican Identity and the Media; Returning to the Ethnic Units: In Search of the Puerto Rican Soldier; Soldado Manteca: The Puerto Rican Gomer Pyle and the Configuration of the Jíbaro Soldier; Televisual Puerto Rican Syndrome: The Representation of the Veteran in Puerto Rican Comedy; Herminio Domínguez: The Un-Conscientious Objector; Whatchamacallit? Call it El Veterano; Female Warriors in Public Broadcasting Television
Description / Table of Contents:
From WWI to Iraq: The Roots and Routes of the Puerto Rican Soldier in Local FilmLa Noche de Don Manuel: When the Jíbaro Soldier Reaches Suburbia; Heroes de Otra Patria; Iraq within Me and the Language of War; The Borinqueneers and the Future of Self-representation; When the Miracle in the History of Representations Happened; Chapter 2: Digital Bodies at War: The Boricua Soldier in Social Networking Sites; Discussions about Race/Ethnicity Online; On Being Puerto Rican in a World of Menu-driven Identities; Re-thinking Diasporas Online
Description / Table of Contents:
The Role of Language in the Digitization of Puerto RicannessAbout Them: Puerto Rican First and Then the Rest; Facebook Groups and the Politics of Belonging; The Grammar of Images of the Puerto Rican Soldier; Re-articulating the Stereotypes; Inking Identity; Beyond the Camouflage: The Thin Line Between Mimicry and Mockery; Articulation in Flux; To be Puerto Rican in the Era of SNS; Chapter 3: Broadcasting Puerto Ricanness: Mash-up Identities in the User-Generated-Content Zone; Live From/Archive on/YouTube: The War on Terror on UGC; Dance Party in Iraq: Starring You
Description / Table of Contents:
Mash-up Identities in Remix CultureMusic from the Battlefield: Prod-users and Curators; Jíbaros in the Battle Zone; The Prod-user in the Battlefield: The Case Study of Juan "Nuro" Cotto; Camouflaging an Un-official Discourse; Choreographed Identity: Salsa Nights in the Battle Zones; Smells and Tastes Like Home Online; The Not-quite Hero and the Antihero: Subverting the Image through UGCs; Chapter 4: Digital Epitaphs: Web Memorializing Puerto Rican Soldiers in the Twenty-first Century; The Importance of Memory Studies; Web Memorializing: A Decade of Digital Remembrance
Description / Table of Contents:
The White Structure at the Corner of the Street: Memorializing Culture in Puerto Rico
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