Angharad N. Valdivia - The Gender of Latinidad

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2 Acknowledgments

3 1 Continuities and Ruptures: The Gender of Latinidad

4 2 Spitfire Transition Tales: The Production of a Career The Spitfire Our Mediated Latina Spitfires Rita Moreno Rosie Perez Charo Salma Hayek Sofía Vergara Conclusion

5 3 An Unambivalent Structure of Ambivalence: Disney's Production of Latina PrincessesPreface: Disney Does Moana – Cultural Politics in 2016 Media ↔ Toys Disney Tales Latina/os and/in Disney Disney Princesses Latina Disney Princesses? Ethnicizing Tween Dreams Real‐Life Latinas: Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato Ambiguous Latinas in an Ambiguous “Latin” Movie Selena and Demi Grow Up Sofia the First Elena of Avalor Conclusion

6 4 Latina/o Media Utopias: The Ideal Place or No Place Utopia Media Studies and Utopia Disney, Utopia, and the American Dream Latina/o Media Utopias Utopia and Production Award Shows as Embodiment of Utopia Plus ça change… Where To? Academia Acknowledgment

7 References

8 Index

9 End User License Agreement

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Names: Valdivia, Angharad N., author.

Title: The gender of Latinidad : uses and abuses of hybridity / Angharad N. Valdivia.

Description: First Edition. | Hoboken : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subjects: LCSH: Hispanic American women. | Women in popular culture–United States. | Hispanic Americans. | Mass media and minorities–United States. | Commodification–United States.

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Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tantoMe ha dado el sonido y el abecedarioCon el las palabras que pienso y declaroMadre, amigo, hermano y luz alumbrandoLa ruta del alma del que estoy amandoVioleta Parra

I dedicate this book to ICR Nation, present, past, and (hopefully) future.