Latinas and Latinos on TV
Subtitle: colorblind comedy in the post-racial network era
By: Isabel Molina-Guzmán
Series: Latinx pop culture; Latinx pop culture
Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780816537242
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Social problems on television; Hispanic Americans on television; Situation comedies (Television programs)
Other titles: Latinas & Latinos on TV
Description: Interweaving discussions about the ethnic, racial, and linguistic representations of Latinas/os within network television comedies, Isabel Molina-Guzmán probes published interviews with producers and textual examples from hit programs like Modern Family, The Office, and Scrubs to understand how these primetime sitcoms communicate difference in the United States. Understanding the complex ways that audiences interpret these programs, Molina-Guzmán situates her analysis within the Obama era, a period when ethnicity and race became increasingly grounded in hipster racism, and argues that despite increased inclusion, the feel-good imperative of TV comedies still inevitably leaves racism, sexism, and homophobia uncontested--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Latina/os, hipster racism, and post-racial TV; title: Scrubs(ing) the beginnings of post-racial TV; title: Hipster racism comes to colorblind TV; title: Reading against the post-racial TV Latina; title: Conclusion : post-racial past and colorblind futures on TV.