Puerto Rican soldiers and second-class citizenship
Subtitle: representations in media
By: Manuel G. Avilés-Santiago
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781137457189
Subjects: Puerto Ricans in mass media; Soldiers in mass media; Mass media and minorities; Puerto Ricans; Social conditions; Ethnic relations
Description: Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the grander narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since World War I. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror. Focusing on social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace, user-generated content such as videos on YouTube, and web memorials for deceased soldiers, Aviľs-Santiago looks at how text, photographs, and video articulate a digital image of the soldiers. He explores how they portray their racial and colonial selves in the face of the continental United States' media indifference.
Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Texas, Austin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Saving Private Fulano de Tal: representations of Puerto Rican soldiers in television and film; title: Digital bodies at war: the Boricua soldier in social networking sites; title: Broadcasting Puerto Ricanness: mash-up identities in the user-generated-content zone; title: Digital epitaphs: web memorializing Puerto Rican soldiers in the 21st century; title: Conclusions.