Latino/a Popular Culture

Michelle Habell-Pallan, Mary Romero, Michelle Habell-Pallan, Mary Romero

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9780814736258
• eBook ISBN: 9780814737255
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Minority Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Index

Advertising Barbie, 38, 39–41, 46, 50–54, 56–57

African descent, 25, 29, 33

Afro-Cuban All Stars, and Cuban music, 62

Afro-Cubans, and discrimination in Cuban popular music, 61, 65, 68

and Buena Vista Social Club, 61

and Castro, 66; son pieces, 61–64, 66–67

and Ibrahim Ferrer, 64

and Santería, 64

Agrón, Salvador, Broadway story of, 147, 149, 150–51, 154–56, 159. See also Capeman, The

Aguirre, Carmen, 174, 187

Alcazar, Robert, 260

Alfaro, Luis, 163, 189

Almeida, Rafael, and Major League baseball,233

and racism, 233

Ambivalence, and borderlands cinema, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79

and Latino/a identity, 73

“American,” vs. “Tropical” rap, 127

American Me, and primal scenes of colonialism, 74–55, 79, 80

and Chicano identity, 75

Amor, and Latin radios, 26, 31–32

Amor Prohibido, and Selena, 121

Anglicized image, 25, 29

Anglo audience, 243

Anzaldúa, Gloria, and borderlands theorists, 79, 80, 258

Aparicio, Frances, 163

Araiza, Beto, 163

Arsonists, 131

Art, 190, 192–94, 195–98, 200–201, 203, 206, 208

graphic, 190, 192–95, 204, 209

mestizo, 191, 209

Assimilation, 139, 154

“Authenticity,” and Broadway’s commodification of culture, 147, 149, 151, 154–55, 158–59

Barbie, 38, 39–41, 46, 50–54, 56–47

Baseball, and national identity, 225

and All-Star Games, 226

and popular culture, 226, 228

and racial system, 235

Benz, Stephen, 95

Bi-cultural identity, 174, 175, 176, 179, 182, 183

Bidi Bidi Bom Bom, and Selena, 122

Big Pun, and rap, 127–28, 130–32, 136

Billboard, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• MEDIA/CULTURE
• MUSIC
• THEATER AND ART
• SPORTS
• Contributors
• Index