{"product_id":"latino-a-popular-culture-hardback-9780814736241","title":"Latino\/a Popular Culture (Hardback) 9780814736241","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLatino\/a Popular Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichelle Habell-Pallan (Edited by), Mary Romero (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814736241\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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 \"The book provides an insight into the current struggles that Latinos who live in the norhern hemisphere face.\" (MELUS) \"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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScholars from the humanities and social sciences analyze representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e  In \u003cb\u003eLatino\/a Popular Culture\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e  Cover artwork \"Layering the Decades\" by Diane Gamboa, 2002, mixed media on paper, 11 X 8.5\". Copyright 2001, Diane Gamboa. Printed with permission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563864912152,"sku":"9780814736241","price":75.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/latino-a-popular-culture-hardback-9780814736241","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}