The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media

The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media provides students and scholars with an indispensable overview of the domestic and transnational dynamics at play within multi-lingual Latina/o media. The book examines both independent and mainstream media via race and gender in its theoretical and empirical engagement with questions of production, access, policy, representation, and consumption. Contributions consider a range of media formats including television, radio, film, print media, music video and social media, with particular attention to understudied fields such as audience and production studies.

María Elena Cepeda is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams College, where her research and teaching focus on transnational Latina/o popular media and music, audience studies, gender, and language politics. She is the author of Musical ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom. Dolores Inés Casillas is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published essays on radio humor, accent use within popular culture, immigration-based media, Chicana/o listening practices and the award-winning book, Sounds of Belonging!: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy.

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