CHICANO 149 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Puerto Ricans, Jennifer Lopez, Historically Informed Performance
21 Nov 2016
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Chicano 149: jennifer as selena: rethinking latinidad in media and popular culture. Latinidad de nition has homogenized all latinos into one undifferentiated group. Underrepresentation and criminalized stereotypes of latinos reveals a politics of representation. Latin music boom de ects the social, demographic, and cultural realities of everyday life among. Us latinos and replaces socially real latino with a controllable, created image of latino that the. Us can integrate into the discourse on their terms. Systematic exclusion of mexican-american in musical production, historically informed by exclusion from citizenship (illegals) Guatemalan singing preciosa reveals that there might be a structure of feeling that has to do with the pain of exile and geocultural displacement. Preciosa : three historical layers of an articulation of the pain of colonialism. Point of this article is to explore latinidad as a concept that allows exploring moments of convergences and divergences in the formation of latino/a postcolonial subjectivities and hybrid cultural expressions among various latino national groups.
