| Descript |
vii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mary Romero and Michelle Habell-Pallán -- Media/culture -- Talking back : Spanish media and U.S. Latinidad / Arlene Dávila -- Barbie's hair : selling out Puerto Rican identity in the global market / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Buena Vista Social Club : the racial politics of nostalgia / Tanya Katerí Hernández -- "Lemme stay, I want to watch" : ambivalence in Borderlands cinema / Luz Calvo -- Music -- Encrucijadas : Rubén Blades at the transnational crossroads / Ana Patricia Rodríguez -- "The sun never sets on MTV" : Tijuana NO! and the border of music video / Josh Kun -- Bidi Bidi Bom Bom : Selena and Tejano music in the making of Tejas / Deborah R. Vargas -- Hip hop and New York Puerto Ricans / Raquel Rivera -- Theater and art -- Paul Simon's The Capeman : the staging of Puerto Rican national identity as spectacle and commodity on Broadway / Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez -- Gender bending in Latino theater : Johnny Diego, The His-panic Zone, and Deporting the Divas by Guillermo Reyes / Melissa A. Fitch -- "Don't call us Hispanic" : popular Latino theater in Vancouver / Michelle Habell-Pallán -- Decidedly "Mexican" and "American" Semi[er]otic transference : Frida Kahlo in the eyes of Gibert Hernandez / William A. Nericcio -- Performing multiple identities : Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his "dangerous border crossings" / Juan Velasco -- Sports -- Learning America's other game: baseball, race, and the study of Latinos / Adrian Burgos, Jr. -- Fútbol nation : U.S. Latinos and the goal of a homeland / Christopher A. Shinn -- Boxing and masculinity : the history and (her)story of Oscar de la Hoya / Gregory Rodriguez. |
| ISBN |
0814736246 (alk. paper) |
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9780814736241 (alk. paper) |
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0814736254 (pbk.) |
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9780814736258 (pbk.) |
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