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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451858303321

Titolo

Latino/a popular culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michelle Habell-Pallʹan and Mary Romero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8147-9081-X

0-8147-3725-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Habell-PallánMichelle

RomeroMary

Disciplina

305.868/073

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Ethnic identity

Hispanic Americans and mass media

Popular culture - United States

Hispanic Americans - Social life and customs

Hispanic American arts

Hispanic American athletes

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

Cover artwork by Diane Gamboa. Credit-Click here     Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States.  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.   In Latino/a



Popular Culture, Habell-Pallán and Romero have brought together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to analyze representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres - media, culture, music, film, theatre, art, and sports - that are emerging acro