Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen
Talking #browntv unpacks mainstream media's representation of Latino/as in TV.
Frederick Luis Aldama. Co-author, William Nericcio.
In Talking #browntv Aldama and Nericcio unpack mainstream media's representation of Latino/as in TV. From subversive critiques embedded in well-loved children’s characters like Speedy Gonzalez to the perpetuation of racial stereotypes in modern-era pornography, from Eva Longoria as ethnic mannequin to J-Lo flipping the sexy Latina music video on its head in “I Luh Ya Papi,” and with more than 150 full-color images, Aldama and Nericcio seek to expose the underlying causes as to why Latina/os constitute only 2 percent of mainstream cultural production when they’re the majority minority in the US.
In Talking #browntv Aldama and Nericcio unpack mainstream media's representation of Latino/as in TV. From subversive critiques embedded in well-loved children’s characters like Speedy Gonzalez to the perpetuation of racial stereotypes in modern-era pornography, from Eva Longoria as ethnic mannequin to J-Lo flipping the sexy Latina music video on its head in “I Luh Ya Papi,” and with more than 150 full-color images, Aldama and Nericcio seek to expose the underlying causes as to why Latina/os constitute only 2 percent of mainstream cultural production when they’re the majority minority in the US.