| Summary: | The US mainstream media have a love and hate relationship with Latina/os. On the one hand, the media treat as hot property such stars as Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, and America Ferrera; on the other, they contribute to the role of Latinas/os as eternal foreigners, having continually to assert their belonging and citizenship. Latina/os and the Media brings together the work of communication studies scholars working on issues of Latinidad and presents it in a coherent, vibrant and accessible form to shed light on the complex relationship between Latina/os and the media. [This book] includes coverage of the following: the participation of Latina/os in media production; the forms in which Latina/os are represented in media; the ways in which Latina/os interpret media and other audiences interpret Latina/os in the media; and the social scientific effects of the forms in which Latina/os are represented, on Latina/os in particular and culture at large.--Publisher description.
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