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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462233803321

Autore

Dávila Arlene M. <1965->

Titolo

Latinos, Inc [[electronic resource] ] : the marketing and making of a people / / Arlene Dávila

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-57151-X

9786613883964

0-520-95359-2

Edizione

[Updated ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

658.8/34/08968073

Soggetti

Hispanic American consumers

Market segmentation - United States

Hispanic Americans - Ethnic identity

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 (p. 259-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2012 Edition -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "Don't Panic, I'm Hispanic": The Trends and Economy of Cultural Flows -- Chapter 2. Knowledges: Facts and Fictions of a People as a Market -- Chapter 3. Images: Producing Culture for the Market -- Chapter 4. Screening the Image -- Chapter 5. Language and Culture in the Media Battle Zone -- Chapter 6. The Focus (or Fuck Us) Group: Consumers Talk Back, or Do They? -- Chapter 7. Selling Marginality: The Business of Culture -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf, the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in American society as a whole. Yet the increasing visibility of Latinos in mainstream culture has not been accompanied by a similar level of economic parity or political enfranchisement. In this important, original, and entertaining book, Arlene Dávila provides a critical examination of the Hispanic marketing industry and of its role in the making and marketing of U.S.



Latinos. Dávila finds that Latinos' increased popularity in the marketplace is simultaneously accompanied by their growing exotification and invisibility. She scrutinizes the complex interests that are involved in the public representation of Latinos as a generic and culturally distinct people and questions the homogeneity of the different Latino subnationalities that supposedly comprise the same people and group of consumers. In a fascinating discussion of how populations have become reconfigured as market segments, she shows that the market and marketing discourse become important terrains where Latinos debate their social identities and public standing.