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Latino/a Popular Culture

Latino/a Popular Culture

Edited by Michelle Habell-Pallan and Mary Romero

Published by: NYU Press

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9780814737255
Published: June 2002

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Scholars from the humanities and social sciences analyze representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres
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 across the nation in relation to Chicanas, Chicanos, mestizos, Puerto Ricans, Caribbeans, Central Americans and South Americans, and Latinos in Canada.
Contributors include Adrian Burgos, Jr., Luz Calvo, Arlene Dávila, Melissa A. Fitch, Michelle Habell-Pallán, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Josh Kun, Frances Negron-Muntaner, William A. Nericcio, Raquel Z. Rivera, Ana Patricia Rodríguez, Gregory Rodriguez, Mary Romero, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Christopher A. Shinn, Deborah R. Vargas, and Juan Velasco.
Cover artwork "Layering the Decades" by Diane Gamboa, 2002, mixed media on paper, 11 X 8.5". Copyright 2001, Diane Gamboa. Printed with permission.

Michelle Habell-Pallán is associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is author of Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture (NYU, 2005), coeditor, with Mary Romero, of Latina/o Popular Culture (NYU, 2002) and coeditor with Wilfried Raussert of Cornbread and Cuchifritos: Ethnic Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturation in American Urban Popular Music: Inter-American Perspectives (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011).

Mary Romero is professor of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. She is author or editor of many books, most recentlyThe Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream (NYU Press, 2012) and Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability (SUNY Press, 2010).

"With stunning, eloquent, and insightful essays Latina and Latino Popular Culture offers the best guide to the cultural production of the largest group of people of color in the United States. The essays broaden both our knowledge of Latino/a cultural production and challenge the traditional paradigms of cultural and ethnic studies doing so through accessible, historically informed approaches." ~Mary Pat Brady,Cornell University

"The book provides an insight into the current struggles that Latinos who live in the norhern hemisphere face." ~MELUS

"Latino/a Popular Culture greatly contributes to the genres of both cultural studies and Latino studies. The editors exhort undergraduate and graduate students to continue looking at Latino/a popular coluture as "as site of invention, critique and pleasure" (p.16) since much work still needs to be done in this area." ~Harvard Educational Review