1696733812     

New York : New York University Press, 2002 [©2002.]

1 online resource (280 pages)

Englisch

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978-0-8147-9081-6

978-0-8147-3625-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

802619738

E184.S75

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LOC-SH: Hispanic American athletes ; Popular culture -- United States ; Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs ; Hispanic American arts ; Hispanic Americans and mass media ; Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity

Hispanic American arts ; Electronic books

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.

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Cover Page -- Title Page -- copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- MEDIA/CULTURE -- 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 -- MUSIC -- Encrucijadas Rubén 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 -- THEATER AND ART -- Paul Simon's The CapemanThe 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 Divasby 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 Gómez-Peña and His "Dangerous Border Crossings" -- SPORTS -- Learning America's Other GameBaseball, Race, and the Study of Latinos -- Fútbol Nation U.S. Latinos and the Goal of a Homeland -- Boxing and MasculinityThe History and (Her)story of Oscar de la Hoya -- Contributors -- Index.