Tuning Out Blackness - Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television

Informationen zum Autor Yeidy M. Rivero is Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. Klappentext A look at how blackness is represented in entertainment programming in Puerto Rico. Zusammenfassung A look at how blackness is represented in entertainment programming in Puerto Rico. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Translating Televisual “Blackness” 1 1. Caribbean Negritos: Ramon Rivero, Blackface, and Black Voice in Puerto Rico 22 2. Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and the Resurgent Popularity of Blackface 67 3. The CubaRican Space Revisited 115 4. Mi familia: A Black Puerto Rican Televisual Family 147 5. Translating and Representing Blackness 185 Notes 199 Bibliography 235 Index 255

Product details

• Authors: Yeidy M Rivero, Yeidy M. Rivero
• Assisted by: Lynn Spigel (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2005
• EAN: 9780822335313
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3531-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet