Review: Latino TV: A History, by Mary Beltrán

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Book Review| September 01 2022 Review: Latino TV: A History, by Mary Beltrán Latino TV: A History by Mary Beltrán Richard Mwakasege-Minaya Richard Mwakasege-Minaya RICHARD MWAKASEGE-MINAYA is an assistant professor of Latina/o/x studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript on Cuban diaspora and its impact on the US film and television industry, US Spanish-language media, and Hispanic conservativism. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Mary Beltrán, Latino TV: A History. New York: New York University Press, 2021. $89.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. 251 pages. Film Quarterly (2022) 76 (1): 108–109. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.108 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Richard Mwakasege-Minaya; Review: Latino TV: A History, by Mary Beltrán. Film Quarterly 1 September 2022; 76 (1): 108–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.108 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 ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA Mary Beltrán, Latino TV: A History. New York: New York University Press, 2021. $89.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. 251 pages. Credited as the first English-language television program with an entirely Latina/o/x production, The Brothers García (2000–2004) and its pilot surprisingly pay homage to a predominantly white show: The Wonder Years (1988–93). Its twelve-year-old Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) and his adult-self narrator (Daniel Stern) were reimagined as an eleven-year-old Latino boy, Larry García (Alvin Alvarez), narrated by his future self (John Leguizamo). Placing García at the center of a white-centric show set in the 1960s–1970s (and produced and made famous in the 1980s–1990s) is an invitation to reimagine Latinas/os/xs at the center of a largely exclusionary television industry and its history. Mary Beltrán’s Latino TV: A History brings this reimagining into realization. The modest-sized book excavates the history of the Latinas/os/x relationship with US television by focusing on English-language... You do not currently have access to this content.