Oct 8th - Contemporary Mainstream Latinidad as the Malleable Construct

The Global Media Research Center is pleased to sponsor a lecture and discussion with Professor Angharad N. Valdivia of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois.

Thursday, October 8th, 2009; 4:30 p.m. Communications 1032

Once constructed in rather starkly stereotypical terms, the representation of Latina/os and circulation of narratives of Latinidad has morphed into a much more complex matter. In the contemporary mediascape, ambiguity and hybridity serve economic impulses as well as advance ethnic agendas with both liberatory and regressive potential.

Angharad N. Valdivia is a Research Professor at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois with faculty appointments in Media Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Latina/o Studies. Her teaching and research focus on issues of transnationalism, gender, ethnicity and Latina/o Studies, media studies, and popular culture. She has written extensively on issues of gender and popular culture with a current emphasis on Latina Media Studies. Her books include A Latina in the Land of Hollywood, Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media, A Companion to Media Studies, and Latina/o Communication Studies Today, and Latina/os and the Media. She is the editor of Communication Theory and the International Companion of Media Studies, an 8-volume full length article encyclopedia forthcoming with Blackwell.

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