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- Title
A Fish Out of Water: New Articulations of U.S.-Latino Identity on Ugly Betty.
- Authors
Avila-Saavedra, Guillermo
- Abstract
This essay examines representations of U.S.-Latino identity on the ABC television program Ugly Betty. The analysis argues that the show articulates a tension between ethnic “otherness” and cultural assimilation that symbolizes current negotiations of individual and collective identities among young, English-speaking Latinos in the United States. Furthermore, the essay argues that Ugly Betty symbolically endorses a new conceptualization of Latino identity in the United States. The conceptual framework of the analysis is the relationship between media representation and identity.
- Subjects
UGLY Betty (TV program); ETHNICITY; IDENTITY (Psychology) &; mass media; ASSIMILATION (Sociology); OTHERING; MASS media &; Hispanic Americans; SOCIAL aspects of television programs
- Publication
Communication Quarterly, 2010, Vol 58, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
0146-3373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/01463371003773416