Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship [electronic resource] : Representations in Media /
Avilés-Santiago, M.author.
Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror, focusing on social networking sites, user-generated content, and web memorials.
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Cover; Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Causalities of War: Puerto Ricans in the US Military; Fuera La Marina de Vieques! Discourses of Antimilitarism in Puerto Rico; Digitizing the War Zones; From MySpace to Facebook: Same War, Different SNS; The Boricua Soldier Goes Online; Articulating Ethnonational Identities in the Contact Zone; Research Design: On How to Traverse the Digital Contact Zones; Harvesting for Self Representations in the Digital Battlefield; Organization of the Book
Chapter 1: Saving Pvt. Fulano de Tal: Representations of Puerto Rican Soldiers in Television and FilmPuerto Rican Identity and the Media; Returning to the Ethnic Units: In Search of the Puerto Rican Soldier; Soldado Manteca: The Puerto Rican Gomer Pyle and the Configuration of the Jíbaro Soldier; Televisual Puerto Rican Syndrome: The Representation of the Veteran in Puerto Rican Comedy; Herminio Domínguez: The Un-Conscientious Objector; Whatchamacallit? Call it El Veterano; Female Warriors in Public Broadcasting Television
From WWI to Iraq: The Roots and Routes of the Puerto Rican Soldier in Local FilmLa Noche de Don Manuel: When the Jíbaro Soldier Reaches Suburbia; Heroes de Otra Patria; Iraq within Me and the Language of War; The Borinqueneers and the Future of Self-representation; When the Miracle in the History of Representations Happened; Chapter 2: Digital Bodies at War: The Boricua Soldier in Social Networking Sites; Discussions about Race/Ethnicity Online; On Being Puerto Rican in a World of Menu-driven Identities; Re-thinking Diasporas Online
The Role of Language in the Digitization of Puerto RicannessAbout Them: Puerto Rican First and Then the Rest; Facebook Groups and the Politics of Belonging; The Grammar of Images of the Puerto Rican Soldier; Re-articulating the Stereotypes; Inking Identity; Beyond the Camouflage: The Thin Line Between Mimicry and Mockery; Articulation in Flux; To be Puerto Rican in the Era of SNS; Chapter 3: Broadcasting Puerto Ricanness: Mash-up Identities in the User-Generated-Content Zone; Live From/Archive on/YouTube: The War on Terror on UGC; Dance Party in Iraq: Starring You
Mash-up Identities in Remix CultureMusic from the Battlefield: Prod-users and Curators; Jíbaros in the Battle Zone; The Prod-user in the Battlefield: The Case Study of Juan "Nuro" Cotto; Camouflaging an Un-official Discourse; Choreographed Identity: Salsa Nights in the Battle Zones; Smells and Tastes Like Home Online; The Not-quite Hero and the Antihero: Subverting the Image through UGCs; Chapter 4: Digital Epitaphs: Web Memorializing Puerto Rican Soldiers in the Twenty-first Century; The Importance of Memory Studies; Web Memorializing: A Decade of Digital Remembrance
The White Structure at the Corner of the Street: Memorializing Culture in Puerto Rico
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror, focusing on social networking sites, user-generated content, and web memorials.
Communication.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Civilization—History.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Media Studies.
Latin American Culture.
Cultural History.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Social Sciences, general.
Sociology, general.