This event has been canceled but may be rescheduled at a later date.
Talking #BrownTV
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Like two friends sitting down in front of the television together, in Talking #browntv, Frederick Luis Aldama and William Anthony Nericcio dialogue about the representations of Latina/os in American television and film from the twentieth century to the present day. One part conversation, one part critique, one part visual cultural studies, and one part rant against the culture industry profiting off warped caricatures of Latina/o subjectivities, Aldama and Nericcio analyze the ways in which Latinx performers have been mediated—with varying degrees of complexity—on the American screen. A comprehensive review of the history of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, Hispanics, Chicana/os, Latina/os and Latinx performers in television and film, Talking #browntv boldly interrogates one of the largest paradoxes in the history of American television: Why are there so few Latina/os on television, and why, when they do appear, are they so often narcos, maids, strumpets, tarts, flakes and losers?
From the subversive critiques embedded in well-loved children's characters like Speedy Gonzalez to the perpetuation of racial stereotypes in modern-era pornography, from Eva Longoria as ethnic mannequin to J-Lo flipping the sexy Latina music video on its head in “I Luh Ya Papi,” and with more than 150 full-color images, Aldama and Nericcio seek to expose the underlying causes as to why Latina/os constitute only 2 percent of mainstream cultural production when they're the majority minority in the US. In a moment when anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant rhetoric oozes from TV sets and media platforms, Talking #browntv emerges as a bold antidote, an eloquent rejoinder and a thoughtful meditation on Latina/os on the American screen and in America today.
Nericcio will be visiting for the following events, too.
- March 23: 10 Things You Need to Know: Publishing and the Job Market
- March 24: Lecture "Love in the Age of Hate"
This event is sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Ohio State University Libraries.
More about the speakers
Frederick Luis Aldama is Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University. He is the award-winning author, co-author, and editor of 40 books. He is the founder and director of the Obama White House award-winning LASER: Latinx Space for Enrichment & Research. For more on his work: professorlatinx.com.
William Anthony Nericcio is Professor and Director of MALAS, an interdisciplinary studies MA Program thriving at San Diego State University. Along with his American Library Association award-winning volume in film studies, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America (2007), Nericcio is the editor of Homer from Salinas: John Steinbeck's Enduring Voice for California and The Hurt Business: Oliver Mayer's Early Works [+] PLUS. His web index lives online here: malas.sdsu.edu/textmex
Learn more at the Office of Diversity and Inclusion website.
