Latina Media Studies

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Research Article| April 01 2018 Latina Media Studies Angharad N. Valdivia Angharad N. Valdivia Angharad N. Valdivia is a research professor, former inaugural head of media and cinema studies, and former interim director of the Institute of Communications Research (2009–14) at the University of Illinois. Her books include A Latina in the Land of Hollywood (University of Arizona Press, 2000), Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media (Sage, 1995), A Companion to Media Studies (Oxford University Press, 2003), Latina/o Communication Studies Today (Peter Lang, 2008), Mapping Latina/o Studies (Peter Lang, 2012), and Latina/os and the Media (Cambridge University Press, 2010). She served as the editor of Communication Theory from 2009 to 2012 and edited the seven-volume International Encyclopedia of Media Studies (Wiley/Blackwell, 2012–13). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Feminist Media Histories (2018) 4 (2): 101–106. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.101 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Angharad N. Valdivia; Latina Media Studies. Feminist Media Histories 1 April 2018; 4 (2): 101–106. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.101 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFeminist Media Histories Search Keywords: hybridity, intersectional, Latinidad, media, transnational It goes without saying that Latina media studies is a feminist endeavor. Taking the intersectional step of including Latinidad, the history and process of being or becoming Latina/o, within media studies and adding the wrinkle of gender takes us into feminism, as these two steps do not naturally happen within our contemporary white masculine normative research environment. Taking the history and experiences of Latinas and the media seriously represents an interventionist and activist impulse that is intersectional at its core. Latina/o media studies promises to illuminate communications and media studies on historical as well as contemporary issues. As with most subfields focusing on previously omitted or marginalized populations and cultures, the interventions follow a familiar pattern. After omission—which is seldom total, as marginalized populations sign in through absence, their implicit presence a backdrop against which theories implying purity and practices perpetuating homogeneity can be inscribed—there is the tokenistic special sidebar... You do not currently have access to this content.