Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture

Latina Youth, Education, and Citizenship: A Feminist Transnational Analysis

“…(p. 124) Collectively, these examples reveal how racialized, gendered, and sexualized stereotypes of the hypersexual Latina were playing a role in how students and teachers perceive and interact with adolescent Latinas. Furthermore, the teachers' and students' implication that Latina/o culture encourages girls to present themselves as feminine and sexual, as well as the suggestion that White girls are not encouraged to do the same, exposes how the Eurocentric mind/body binary operates to position the United States as intellectual and cultured and Latin America (or Latin American culture) as hypersexual, uncultured, and feminine (Molina-Guzmán & Valdivia, 2004). These images work to Downloaded by [Ryerson University Library] at 22:11 14 June 2016 Bondy mold Latina youth into respectable girls, thereby eliminating fears of Latinas supposed high fertility rates and, hence, their cultural/racial/sexual threats to the United States.…”

“…(Molina-Guzmán & Valdivia, 2004, p. 211) Through these discourses and images, Latin America becomes hypersexualized and feminine, and Latinas' body parts, such as their hips, waste, and buttocks, are emphasized in ways that signify sexual desire and fertility as well as bodily waste and racial contamination. In other words, dominant representations of Latinas position them as continual foreigners and cultural/sexual/racial threats to the United States (Molina-Guzmán, 2010; Molina-Guzmán & Valdivia, 2004).…”

“…Molina-Guzmán and Valdivia (2004) analyzed the material and symbolic conditions that produce Latina icons-Salma Hayek, Frida Kahlo, and Downloaded by [Ryerson University Library] at 22:11 14 June 2016 Jennifer Lopez. They asserted that the representational strategies used to construct Latina bodies are linked to the nation, flows of global capital, and the significance of booty in the Western imagination.…”

Communicating “Truth”:Testimonio, Vernacular Voices, and The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy

“…Here we join those communication scholars who are interested in integrating vernacular voices of those who participate in salient social discussions (e.g., Hasian & Delgado, 1998;Ono & Sloop, 1995, as well as scholars who are interested in giving voice to "the other" (e.g., Flores, 1996;Orbe & Strother, 1996). Likewise, we seek to contribute to critical scholarship that articulates vernacular discourses to Latino/a communication studies (Holling, 2006, Calafell & Delgado, 2004, Delgado, 1998a, 1998bFlores & Hasian, 1997) and which further contributes to the growing body of Latino/a communication studies (Calafell, 2004;Guzmán & Valdivia, 2004;Mayer, 2004;Rojas, 2004;Valdivia, 2004;Zazueta Martínez, 2004).…”

"This is not what motherhood looks like" : mothers' interpretations of cultural representations of the celebrity pregnant and post-partum body."

“…This is evident in eMB narratives that typically showcase flawlessly toned white celebrity mothers as the cultural norm. Although many celebrity women of color have achieved popularity and mass media representations, it has been argued that popular celebrity women of color have been "whitewashed" and "anglicized" due to their extreme weight loss, makeup, and straight hair, (Guzman & Valdivia, 2004).…”