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9%OFFYeidy M. Rivero - Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television - 9780822335436 - V9780822335436
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Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television

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Description for Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television Paperback. A look at how blackness is represented in entertainment programming in Puerto Rico. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KJP; APT; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from the late 1940s to the 1990s, Yeidy M. Rivero advances critical discussions about race, ethnicity, and the media. She shows that televisual representations of race have belied the racial egalitarianism that allegedly pervades Puerto Rico’s national culture. White performers in blackface have often portrayed “blackness” in local television productions, while black actors have been largely excluded.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Console-ing Passions
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822335436
SKU
V9780822335436
Shipping Time
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About Yeidy M. Rivero
Yeidy M. Rivero is Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Reviews for Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television
“Tuning Out Blackness offers an astute and very well informed analysis of Puerto Rico’s unique ‘racial’ programming, which in turn provides a valuable look at the deep ambivalence at the heart of the country’s sense of national identity in the shadow of U. S. ideological and cultural power.”—Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television


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