Latino/A Popular Culture

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.

Author: Michelle Habell-Pallan
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 06/01/2002
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.92w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780814736258

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2002 pg. 713

About the Author
Habell-Pallan, Michelle: - Michelle Habell-Pallán is an Associate Professor in the Women Studies Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the co-editor with Mary Romero of Latino/a Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2002).Romero, Mary: - Mary Romero is Professor of Justice Studies at Arizona University. She is the author or editor of many books, including Maid in the U.S.A.. In 2012, she was awarded the Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award by the Latino/Latina Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.