{"product_id":"tuning-out-blackness-9780822335436","title":"Tuning Out Blackness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA look at how blackness is represented in entertainment programming in Puerto Rico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTuning Out Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e offers an astute and very well informed analysis of Puerto Rico’s unique ‘racial’ programming, which in turn provides a valuable look at the deep ambivalence at the heart of the country’s sense of national identity in the shadow of U. S. ideological and cultural power.”—Juan Flores, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book not only provides a cultural history of ‘blackness’ in Puerto Rican television, it also locates Puerto Rico as a critical blind spot in both Latin American and U. S. television studies, one that can offer new insights into the televisual representation of race, family, and nation.”—Chon Noriega, author of \u003ci\u003eShot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[M]eticulously researched. . . . Rivero offers a well-written chronology of the ever-changing function of ‘blackness’ and its relationship to the \u003ci\u003e‘la gran familia puertoriqueña\u003c\/i\u003e discourse’ (nationalist discourse) that is perpetually being rearticulated on Puerto Rico. . . . I would highly recommend this book for anyone interested in issues related to popular culture and race and ethnicity.” -- Amanda V. Branker * Journal of American Ethnic History *\u003cbr\u003e“This book contributes a powerful analysis of the dialectics that forge discourses on race and nation in local Puerto Rican televisual productions. . . . Rivero’s book is a well-documented cultural reading of television as an important force in the shaping of localized forms of collective social imagination. This study represents a milestone in media research in Puerto Rico mainly because Rivero’s analysis is articulated from the inside, not the outside.” -- Mirerza González-Vélez * Journal of Communication Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e“Yeidy Rivero’s \u003ci\u003eTuning Out Blackness \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a well documented cultural history of “blackness” in Puerto Rican television. . . . [S]he makes excellent use of participant observation, interviews, archival research, and textual analysis to critically analyze representations of race in local Puerto Rican television.” -- Dwight E. Brooks * Journalism History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ground-breaking and complex. . . . Provocative. . . . A rich, engaging, vital contribution to television history and popular culture studies, Puerto Rican and Latino studies, and racial and ethnic studies. Highly recommended.\" -- S.A. Vega Garcia * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Translating Televisual “Blackness” 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Caribbean Negritos: Ramon Rivero, Blackface, and Black Voice in Puerto Rico 22\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and the Resurgent Popularity of Blackface 67\u003cbr\u003e 3. The CubaRican Space Revisited 115\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eMi familia\u003c\/i\u003e: A Black Puerto Rican Televisual Family 147\u003cbr\u003e 5. Translating and Representing Blackness 185\u003cbr\u003e Notes 199\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 235\u003cbr\u003e Index 255","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406038344023,"sku":"9780822335436","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822335436.jpg?v=1730494331","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tuning-out-blackness-9780822335436","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}