The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture

Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, performance art, food, lowrider culture, theatre, p

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Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University where he is also founder and director of LASER and the Humanities & Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute. He is author, co-author, and editor of over 24 books, including the Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature and Latino/a Literature in the Classroom.

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INTRODUCTION. PUTTING THE POP IN LATINO CULTURE.

CHAPTER 1. LATINA/OS ON TV!: A Proud (and Ongoing) Struggle Over Representation and Authorship CHAPTER 2. LATINO FILM IN THE END TIMES

CHAPTER 3. "¡VÁMONOS! LET'S GO!": Latina/o Children's Television

CHAPTER 4. BRANDING "LATINOHOOD," JUAN BOBO, AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF DORA THE EXPLORER

CHAPTER 5. CANTA Y NO LLORES: Life & Latinidad in Children's Animation

CHAPTER 6. BEYOND THE "DIGITAL DIVIDE" & LATINA/O POP

CHAPTER 7. WHY VIDEOGAMES: Ludology Meets Latino Studies

Chapter 8. The Industry & Aesthetics of Latino Comic Books

Chapter 9. SCIENCE FICTION AND Latino Studies Today... and in the Future

CHAPTER 10. THE TECHNOLOGY OF LABOR, MIGRATION, AND PROTEST

CHAPTER 11. PERFORMING MESTIZAJE: Making Indigenous Acts Visible in Latina/o Popular Culture

CHAPTER 12. BROWN BODIES ON GREAT WHITE WAY: Latina/o Theater, Pop Culture, and Broadway

CHAPTER 13. SIEMPRE PA'L ARTE: The Passions of Latina/o Spoken Word

CHAPTER 14. POSTINDUSTRIAL PINTO POETICS AND NEW MILLENNIAL MAIZ NARRATIVES: Race and Place in Chicano Hip Hop

CHAPTER 15. PUNK SPANGLISH

CHAPTER 16. LATINO RADIO AND COUNTER EPISTEMOLOGIES

CHAPTER 17. HERMANDAD, ARTE & REBELDÍA: Mexican Popular Art in New York City

CHAPTER 18. INEXACT REVOLUTIONS: Understanding Latino Pop Art

CHAPTER 19. INSTALLATION ART, TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CHINESE-CHICANO EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER 20. REVISING THE ARCHIVE: Documentary Portraiture in the Photography of Delilah Montoya

CHAPTER 21. FARMWORKER-TO-TABLE MEXICAN: Decolonizing Haute Cuisine

CHAPTER 22. THE RITUALS OF HEALTH

CHAPTER 23. LOWRIDER PUBLICS: Aesthetics and Contested Communities

CHAPTER 24. BARRIO RITUAL AND POP RITE: Quinceañeras in the Folklore-Popular Culture Borderlands

CHAPTER 25. CULTURA JOTERIA: The Ins and O