Latinos and Latinas and Media in the United States
A Call for Proposals
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2008
Latino Studies invites proposals for a special issue on Latinos and Latinas
and the media in the United States. This special issue will explore
contemporary issues affecting how Latinos/as are portrayed in both the news
and entertainment media, how various news and entertainment media are
responding to the new demographics, effects of those portrayals,
Latinos as consumers and producers of media. Successful proposal writers
will be invited to submit papers for discussion at a conference/workshop to
be held at the John Jay College/City University of New York in January 2009.
The following are some of the assumptions guiding this call:
1) Mainstream news and entertainment media has shaped how Latina/os are
viewed in the U.S., both by others, as well as by Latina/os themselves.
2) Media aimed at Latina/os ? some of it Spanish-language-- in the form
of television, radio, film, periodicals, the Internet, has also affected how
Latina/os in the U.S. are viewed.
The aim of the proposed conference/workshop is to examine the above
assumptions and other related political and cultural issues from a variety
of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives.
Among the questions to be addressed are:
* To what extent does today?s media include fair and accurate portrayals
of Latina/os?
* How do those portrayals influence Latino/as? self image?
* How do mainstream media portrayals today influence the historical
consciousness of the nation?
* How do Latina/o producers of news and entertainment influence the products?
* What is the effect of Latina/o bloggers on the overall consciousness of
Latina/os and/or of the mainstream?
* How do media representations of Latina/os influence how Latin
Americans in other countries perceive Latina/os in the US? What are
consequences of those representations for immigration, etc.?
* What are the political and policy implications
for a) Latina/o communities, and/or b) for the nation, of current media
portrayals of Latina/os?
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008
Please send proposals no longer than 5 pages addressing any of the above
issues by June 15,
2008, by email attachment to:
Suzanne Oboler, Editor, LATINO STUDIES
Professor, Dept of Latin American and Latina/o Studies
John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY
445 West 59th Street, room 1554N
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 237-8751
Fax: (212) 484-1113
Email: [log in to unmask]
Sent by
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor, School of Journalism
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, A1000
Austin, TX 78712
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Also, Director, U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/ww2latinos/
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