Table of Contents
Part I: Understanding Contemporary Latina/o Media Introduction Chapter 1: Authenticity, Appropriation, Articulation: The Cultural Logic of Latinidad, Esteban del Río Chapter 2: The Transnational Restructuring of Communication and Consumption Practices: Latinos in the Urban Settings of Global Cities, Jéssica Retis Chapter 3: A Political-Economic Analysis of the Evolution of Latino Media in the New Latino South, Lucila Vargas and Joseph Erba Chapter 4: Implicit Utopias and Ambiguous Ethnics:? Latinidad and the Representational Promised Land,Angharad Valdivia Chapter 5: Phenotypicality Bias on Television?: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Primetime TV, Dana Mastro and Alexander Sink Chapter 6: Beyond the Market: Lessons Learned from Latina/o Audiences, Kristin Moran Part II: Access, Policy and Production in Latina/o Media Introduction Chapter 7: Altering the U.S. Soundscape through Latina/o Community Radio, Mari Castañeda Chapter 8: The State of Emergency Communications at a Time of Population and Linguistic Shifts: A Case Study in Central Texas, Federico Subervi? Chapter 9: Direct to DVD: A Case Study of Latina/o Genre and Audience, Orquidea Morales Chapter 10: From the Bronze Screen to the Computer Screen: Latina/o Web Series and Independent Production, Vittoria Rodríguez and Mary Beltrán Chapter 11: Latina/Latino Community Journalism: A San Francisco Case Study, Katynka Zazueta Martínez Chapter 12: The Cycle of Latina/o Community Media Activism: Digital Storytelling in Springfield, MA, Rogelio Miñana Part III: Representations of Latinas/os in the Media Introduction Chapter 13: Imagining Postville: National Public Radio and the Discourse of Latina/o Representation, Hannah Noel Chapter 14: What’s in an Accent?: Gender and Cultural Stereotypes in the Work of Sofía Vergara, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste Chapter 15: The Location of (U.S.) Latin Rock, Ignacio Corona Chapter 16: Singing about Separation: Deportation, #Not1More, and La Santa Cecilia’s 'ICE: El Hielo,' Lorena Alvarado Chapter 17: The Deterritorialized Political Economy of Narcocorridos in the USA, Hector Amaya Chapter 18: What To Do with All this Beauty?: The Political Economy of Latina Stardom in the 21st Century, Frances Negrón-Muntaner Chapter 19: Sofía Vergara Made Me Do It: On Beauty, Costeñismo and Transnational Colombian Identity, Isabel Cristina Contreras Porras Chapter 20: Sex, Service and Scenery: Latina Sexualities in the Pages of Vogue, Aida Hurtado Part IV: Engendering New Practices and Meanings Behind Latina/o Media Consumption Introduction Chapter 21: Voices from the Borderlands: Young Latina/os Discuss the Impact that Culture and Identity have on their Media Consumption, Viviana Rojas and Juan Piñón Chapter 22: Latina/os’ Facebook Usage: An Interethnic and Intergenerational Exploration of their Engagement with a Social Networking Site, Adolfo Mora and Viviana Rojas Chapt