Forging a Path: Past and Present Scope of Critical Race Theory and Latina/o Critical Race Theory in Communication Studies

Anguiano, Claudia; Castañeda, Mari

doi:10.1080/15358593.2014.951954

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“…The social justice dimension of this study includes sharing it with producers and can be activated further by engaging audiences in future work. The application of Anguiano and Castañeda’s (2014) Latina/o critical communication theory suggests promise for theoretical frameworks that arrive from a subaltern, community-oriented perspective. We hope this analysis builds on their work and suggests how other scholars can further contribute to this conversation.…”

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“…One Day at a Time was written with the clear understanding of prevailing stereotypes, especially the racist nativism that uses immigration discourses to define Latina/os as other (Anguiano & Castaneda, 2014). Calderon Kellett identifies how she hoped to ensure that the characters would not easily fit into existing narratives about Latinas and their gendered positionality on much of television.…”

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“…This exchange reiterates that there is not a single Latina/o experience regarding immigration. Yet, both of these examples advance color-blind racism, perpetuating “discriminating practices of ‘post-race’ era language toward Latina/os” (Anguiano & Casteñeda, 2014, p. 114) by failing to account for how racial difference and White supremacy inform immigration discourses. While interweaving stories about statuses of Canadian, Cuban, and Mexican immigrants break apart the persistent moral panic around Mexican and Central American immigration, it has the effect of flattening difference among immigrants and statuses, where very clearly the advantages of whiteness held by Canadian expat Schneider—and to a lesser extent Lydia—are hinted at but not contested within the narrative.…”

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“…Their framework centralizes the Latina/o experience and can be utilized across communication problematics as a way of confronting the marginalization of Latina/os in communication theory. Informed by critical race theory and Latina/o critical theory, Anguiano and Castañeda (2014) outline a point of departure, drawing on Latina/o scholarship to “explain the impact of the Latina/o condition” and draw foundational ideas from the “existing (but disparate) scholarship on Latina/os” (p. 113). Surveying the literature, they put forward five tenets that inform Latina/o critical communication theory: centralizing the Latina/o experience, use of decolonizing methodologies, acknowledgment of racism faced by Latina/os, a resistance to colorblind rhetoric toward Latina/os, and the promotion of social justice.…”

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“…Further, Anguiano and Castañeda’s (2014) call to decolonize methodological approaches is heeded. In this case, One Day at a Time is used as an entrance into a critical analysis of the politics of representation, drawing a relationship between the text and its negotiation of political, economic, and cultural tensions.…”

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Remaking Television:One Day at a Time’sDigital Delivery and Latina/o Cultural Specificity

Río

Moran

2019

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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New distribution models have transformed television over the past decade, and Netflix’s One Day at a Time (2017–) stands out not only because it is a remake of a classic Norman Lear sitcom, but because it also foregrounds a Cuban American family. Using a radical contextual and relational approach, this study analyzes One Day at a Time from a cultural studies perspective using theoretical tools that arrive from critical Latina/o communication studies. We analyze the first season’s 13 episodes to demonstrate how storytelling is modified in the context of digital streaming. In this case, we argue that One Day at a Time offers an alternative to the flattening of difference far too common in Latina/o media. Instead, the show highlights the cultural specificity of this Cuban American family as a form of broad audience appeal as it negotiates sexual identity and immigration discourses within a contemporary social framework.

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Remaking Television:One Day at a Time’sDigital Delivery and Latina/o Cultural Specificity

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Moran

2019

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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Critical Race Theory

Rollock

Dixson

2016

The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy

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Critical race theory (CRT) is an intellectual movement that seeks to understand how white supremacy as a legal, cultural, and political condition is reproduced and maintained, primarily in the US context. Key to CRT is an emphasis on social change; thus, scholars within CRT not only attempt to understand race and racism but also to remedy their effects. Within the field of communication, CRT has been taken up by only a few scholars; yet CRT's overarching emphasis on the study of race pervades the field of communication.

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