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Latina/os and the Media
Angharad N. Valdivia
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Description for Latina/os and the Media
Hardback. The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship withLatina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property suchstars as Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera; on theother they contribute to the role of Latina/os as eternalforeigners, having continually to assert their belonging andcitizenship. Series: Media and Minorities. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSL4. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 609.
The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship with Latina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property such stars as Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera; on the other they contribute to the role of Latina/os as eternal foreigners, having continually to assert their belonging and citizenship. Latina/os and the Media brings together the scholarship of communication studies scholars working on issues of Latinidad and presents it in a coherent, vibrant and accessible form to shed light on the complex relationship between Latina/os and the media.
The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship with Latina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property such stars as Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera; on the other they contribute to the role of Latina/os as eternal foreigners, having continually to assert their belonging and citizenship. Latina/os and the Media brings together the scholarship of communication studies scholars working on issues of Latinidad and presents it in a coherent, vibrant and accessible form to shed light on the complex relationship between Latina/os and the media.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Media and Minorities
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745640075
SKU
V9780745640075
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About Angharad N. Valdivia
Angharad Valdivia, Professor of Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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"One of those rare texts that will be useful to scholars interested in broadening their knowledge of Latina and Latino representation and participation in the US media industries and of US Latina/os more generally, while also educating undergraduate students in accessible and engaging prose about the broad array of subjects and scholarship that comprises US Latina/o media studies." Bulletin of ... Read more