{"product_id":"latinoa-popular-culture-9780814736241","title":"Latinoa Popular Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLatinos have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. This title analyzes 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 and Latinos in Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With stunning, eloquent, and insightful essays \u003cb\u003eLatina and Latino Popular Culture\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\"The book provides an insight into the current struggles that Latinos who live in the norhern hemisphere face.\" * MELUS *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Talking Back: Spanish Media and U.S. Latinidad      2 Barbie's Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market      3 The Buena Vista Social Club: The Racial Politics of Nostalgia     4 \"Lemme Stay, I Want to Watch\": Ambivalence in Borderlands Cinema     5 Encrucijadas: Ruben Blades at the Transnational Crossroads     6 \"The Sun Never Sets on MTV\": Tijuana NO! and the Border of Music Video     7 Bidi Bidi Bom Bom: Selena and Tejano Music in the Making of Tejas     8 Hip Hop and New York Puerto Ricans     9 Paul Simon's The Capeman: The Staging of Puerto Rican National Identity as Spectacle and Commodity on Broadway     10 Gender Bending in Latino Theater     11 \"Don't Call Us Hispanic\": Popular Latino Theater in Vancouver     12 A Decidedly \"Mexican\" and \"American\" Semi[er]otic Transference     13 Performing Multiple Identities: Guillermo Gomez-Pena and His \"Dangerous Border Crossings\"     14 Learning America's Other Game: Baseball, Race, and the Study of Latinos     15 Futbol Nation: U.S. Latinos and the Goal of a Homeland     16 Boxing and Masculinity: The History and (Her)story of Oscar de la Hoya","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405880140119,"sku":"9780814736241","price":70.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814736241.jpg?v=1730493781","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/latinoa-popular-culture-9780814736241","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}