Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship: Representations in Media

ISBN-13: 9781349498598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 223 str.

Manuel G. Aviles-Santiago; Manuel Gerardo Avilaes Santiago; M. Aviles-Santiago

Opis

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Texas, Austin.

Recenzje

"Responding to the fact that the experiences of Puerto Rican soldiers have been almost entirely absent from mainstream media for decades, Manuel Avilés-Santiago's groundbreaking study explores how they self-represent themselves and their role in the War on Terror via social media. This much-needed investigation is thoroughly engaging, important, and enlightening." - Charles Ramírez Berg, Joe M. Dealey, Sr. Professor, Media Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

"Manuel Avilés-Santiago's research has evolved from his keen observations as a youngster of the robust military contributions of his own family, to discovering a curious absence of a Puerto Rican presence in dominant representations of U.S. wars, to finally finding the Puerto Rican serviceman self-representations on social media networks, with particular attention to their racial and colonial subjectivity. Avilés-Santiago succeeds in carefully deconstructing and analyzing the self-created representations, and comparing them with what (few) representations have been made by the dominant media. Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship provides a window into the s the younger generations' self-expression - and opens up major areas still ripe for further study. This work is an insightful and carefully constructed project, a culmination of a lifetime of observations and probing - begun when he was a mere child." - Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Director, Voces Oral History Project, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Saving Private Fulano de Tal: Representations of Puerto Rican Soldiers in Television and Film 2. Digital Bodies at War: The Boricua Soldier in Social Networking Sites 3. Broadcasting Puerto Ricanness: Mash-up Identities in the User-Generated-Content Zone 4. Digital Epitaphs: Web memorializing Puerto Rican Soldiers in the 21st Century Conclusions

O autorze

Manúel Avilés-Santiago is Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at Arizona State University, USA.