America, as Seen on TV: How Television Shapes Immigrant Expectations Around the Globe

by Clara E Rodriguez and Clara E. Rodríguez

Finalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed Book

The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers

As a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to American ideals and the English language for many people throughout the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents race, class, and gender in ways that many find unfair and unrealistic. What happens,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479856827
• ISBN13: 9781479856824
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"