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Mary Beltrán, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022)
In this episode, our host Lucila Rozas discusses the book Latino TV: A History (2022) by Mary Beltrán.
You’ll hear about:
A brief trajectory of the book and the conversations on global studies of media and communication with which this book engages;
The concept of cultural citizenship and its relevance to study Latino TV;
How the author puts together the traces of the history of Latino TV, especially in the cases when it was difficult to find information about the series that were not preserved/archived;
What has changed in the 2000s-2010s that led to the inclusion of more Latinx people in TV…
The skinny
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