Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television

by Yeidy M. Rivero

Book Overview

Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico's commercial media from the late 1940s to the 1990s, Yeidy M. Rivero advances critical discussions about race, ethnicity, and the media. She shows that televisual representations of race have belied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335433
• ISBN13: 9780822335436
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"