{"product_id":"mediated-dominicanidad-dominicans-and-us-media-paperback-softback-9780253074898","title":"Mediated Dominicanidad; Dominicans and US Media (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253074898","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMediated Dominicanidad\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDominicans and US Media\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKeara K. Goin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253074898\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 January 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 38 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 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\u003cp\u003e\"Keara Goin constructs a well-structured and vigorously researched argument about the ways in which Dominican identities are always already transnational. . . . Combining cultural studies, media and reception studies with the scholarship on how Dominicans and US Americans construct race . . . this book is much-needed, and will hopefully inspire future research as well. As one of the blackest populations in Latin America and the Caribbean, Dominicans, both island-based and in the diaspora, present a critical case study for conversations around Afro-latinidad.\"—Jennifer Domino Rudolph, author of \u003ci\u003eBaseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDominicans are the fastest growing Latino\/a group in the United States and have long been ignored by scholars and popular culture. Using US media as a lens to interpret the identity negotiation practices among Dominican Americans and Dominicans living in the US, \u003ci\u003eMediated\u003c\/i\u003e Dominicanidad repositions Dominicans from the margins of American society and culture to its center, exploring the relationships between Dominican Americans and American media.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDominicanidad\u003c\/i\u003e, or \"Dominican-ness,\" in television and film and on the internet is negotiated through its usage within and production of these media, but our understanding of it remains in flux. Part ethnography and part critical cultural analysis,\u003ci\u003e Mediated\u003c\/i\u003e Dominicanidad gives voice to those who experience a fluctuating identity. Author Keara K. Goin discusses celebrities like Zoe Saldaña and Alex Rodriguez, television shows like \u003ci\u003eOrange is the New Black\u003c\/i\u003e, movies like \u003ci\u003eIn the Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, and filmmakers like Tabaré Blanchard. In doing so, she centers US media as integral to the negotiation of dominicanidad, intervenes in Latina\/o media studies with a critical exploration of the representation and discourses contributing to intense negotiations of identification about Dominicans and Dominican Americans, and reveals an intimate and contested relationship between Blackness and latinidad based on how they are entrenched with dominicanidad.\u003cbr\u003e Addressing a population often disregarded and marginalized,\u003ci\u003e Mediated\u003c\/i\u003e Dominicanidad is a thoughtful study that can be used to unpack identity negotiation processes within the US more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Terminology\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Rethinking the Dominican Relationship to Blackness\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1. Theorizing \u003ci\u003edominicanidad\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: (In)Authentic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003edominicanidad\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e2. Dominican Celebrity Studies\u003cbr\u003e3. Televisual \u003ci\u003edominicanidad\u003c\/i\u003e and MTV's \u003ci\u003eWashington Heights\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLatinidades\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and Hyphenated Identities\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e4. Competing \u003ci\u003elatinidades\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eOrange Is the New Black\u003c\/i\u003e and Engagement with Latinx Specificity\u003cbr\u003e5. Producing \u003ci\u003edominicanidad\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eAsí Somos\u003c\/i\u003e\/The Way We Are\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: \"\u003ci\u003eMi raza es dominicana\u003c\/i\u003e\": \u003ci\u003eDominicanidad\u003c\/i\u003e as a Unique Lens for Approaching U.S. Racial Hegemony\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525855310104,"sku":"9780253074898","price":27.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mediated-dominicanidad-dominicans-and-us-media-paperback-softback-9780253074898","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}