A N Valdivia
Biographic Data
| ID | 58485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A N Valdivia |
| GIVEN NAMES | A N |
| FAMILY NAME | Valdivia |
| SIGNATURE | VALDIVIA A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3187-3504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dear Norm
This is a letter to Norman Denzin, who passed away in August 2023
The location of U.S. Latinidad: Stuck in the Middle , Disney, and the in-between ethnicity
This article explores Disney’s production and circulation of specific and ambiguous Latinidad by focusing on the Disney Channel television series Stuck in the Middle (2016–2018). Bringing together discourses of girlhoods and Latinidad, and elaborating on post-feminism through ambiguity, the article employs three overlapping units of analysis: the family, the main character, Harley Diaz, and four purposefully selected episodes, to investigate how …
Feminist Media Studies
Rhetorical support of intersectionality and actual production of intersectional scholarship does not necessarily result in intersectional scholarship throughout the field. Within the fields of Communications and Media Studies, the usual process of focusing on heteronormative white middle-class women—in theory and practice—has slowly began to include a broader range of theories and populations. Of particular focus, the International Communication …
Intersectionality and Mentoring as Organic Praxis: When Feminist Killjoys are Too Hot to be Mentors
Journal Article Intersectionality and Mentoring as Organic Praxis: When Feminist Killjoys are Too Hot to be Mentors Get access Angharad N Valdivia Angharad N Valdivia Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 14, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 692–695, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab055 Published: 17 September 2021
The Gendered Face of Latinidad: Global Circulation of Hybridity
This chapter examines the gendered face of Latinidad as it is transported, manipulated, and articulated by popular media networks under the contemporary conditions of globality. Latinidad, the process of being, becoming, and/or performing belonging within a Latina/o diaspora, challenges many popular and academic categories of ethnicity, location, and culture. As a cultural and conceptual framework, Latinidad enables a more nuanced reading of the …
Latina Media Studies
It goes without saying that Latina media studies is a feminist endeavor. Taking the intersectional step of including Latinidad, the history and process of being or becoming Latina/o, within media studies and adding the wrinkle of gender takes us into feminism, as these two steps do not naturally happen within our contemporary white masculine normative research environment. Taking the history and experiences of Latinas and the media seriously repr…
Holding Up Half the Sky
In this article I explore the Half the Sky (HTS) phenomenon, including the documentary shown on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network in 2014. I explore how the girls in whose name the HTS movement exists are represented in relation to Nicholas Kristoff and six celebrity advocates. This analysis foregrounds Global North philanthropy’s discursive use of Global South girls to advance a neoliberal approach that ignores structural forces that…
Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State
In “The Physics of Forbidden Love,” the “Modern Love” New York Times column of 30 April 2017, the author tells the tale of an unlikely couple, a transgender man and a South Asian woman, who fall in love and find refuge with each other in this climate of animosity toward brown-skinned immigrants and transgendered people. Unwittingly, this column illustrates the central themes of Kumarini Silva’s Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State. …
(Dis)locating nations in the World Cup: Football Fandom and the Global Geopolitics of Affect
The World Cup, as a tournament that pits national teams against one another, initially seems to be a site where support for sports is tied to nations. However, situating this sporting event at the intersection of discourses of globalization, transnational circulation of capital and populations, and theories of fandom, our examination of diasporic populations found that the choice is not a simple one between ‘origin nation’ and ‘residence nation.’…
Ethnic Studies
This entry provides an overview of the wide‐ranging work deriving from ethnic studies in the heterogeneous discipline of communications. Following a brief definition of ethnic studies, the entry details its presence in all areas of the field—from interpersonal and organizational communications to media studies and its four components: production, content, audiences, and effects. The entry ends with the contemporary turn to hybrid and interracial …
Male is to Female As _____ Is to: A Guided Tour of Five Feminist Frameworks for Communication Studies
Media prosumers. Participatory culture of audiences and media responsibility
The new technologies are paving the way for new forms of people of be themselves, relate, mobilize, learn, and participate. In this context of change facilitated by ICT, we can say that the relationship of individuals with the media and information which has experienced a more significant change, in particular with the emergence of media like the Internet. Against the traditional role of the audience as a passive subject, as receiver of the messa…
Media Studies: The Interdiscipline of the Present and the Future
Amnesia and the Myth of Discovery: Lessons from Transnational and Women of Color Communication Scholars
Two concepts that do not receive center stage, yet deserve such position, are amnesia and its fraternal twin the myth of discovery. Amnesia is absolutely essential in the current neoliberal regime, within its spaces of exception and at its core. We could not “discover” new media, new audiences, and new markets without forgetting histories of conquest, technology, and financial debacles. Within critical/cultural studies the deployment of these two…
Media Studies: The Interdiscipline of the Present and the Future
Mobile Handsets From The Bottom Up: Appropriation And Innovation In The Global South
This chapter provides a general mapping of grassroots practices associated with an alternative mobile handset culture that has emerged from the bottom up in the Global South. The authors highlight the social, economic, and institutional factors – in local as well as transnational contexts – that have contributed to “flexible” handsets and grassroots practices within this alternative model of social innovation. Drawing upon theories of user approp…
Media Studies: Diagnostics Of A Failed Merger
According to Geert Lovink, there is no such thing as a “visual culture” that connects film, television, video, and new media. In this chapter, he argues that this mistaken belief has led to the naïve notion that we are all working on the same project, “the media.” In fact, Lovink argues, humanities‐based “media studies” has never had a grip on new media and Internet education. The idea that media are all about images is contradicted by the realit…
The Gendered Face of Latinidad: Global Circulation of Hybridity
Activating the “I” and Ramifications for International Communication Association Journals and Members
Journal Article Activating the “I” and Ramifications for International Communication Association Journals and Members Get access Angharad N. Valdivia Angharad N. Valdivia 1Institute of Communication Research, University of Illinois at Urbana, IL 61801, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 21, Issue 4, November 2011, Pages 317–322, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01388.x…
Living in a hybrid material world: Girls, ethnicity and mediated doll products
Drawing on a theoretical framework that combines Media Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Girls Studies with the concept of hybridity, I explore American Girl, Dora the Explorer, and Bratz—three mediated doll lines—as manifestations of an ethnic identity crisis that in turns generates a moral panic that seeks to return whiteness and conventional femininity to its normalized mainstream standing. Issues of production, representation, and reception of m…
Introduction from the New Editor
It is a great honor to take responsibility for the editorship of this central journal in our field. Communication Theory aims to be inclusive in theory, methodology, and scope within our interdiscipline. Many have written on the contours and boundaries of our field. What some see as fragmentation, others recognize as the potential to engage in truly interdisciplinary and whollistic research projects. While some favor social scientific approaches,…
Long Live Jim Carey
Long Live Jim Carey
Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture
We were shooting on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum one night. It was lit romantically, and Jennifer was wearing an evening gown, looking incredibly stunning. Suddenly there must have been a thousand people screaming her name. It was like witnessing this icon. (Ralph Fiennes in the New York Times, 2002, p. 16, emphasis added) This stamp, honoring a Mexican artist who has transcended "la frontera" and has become and icon to Hispanics, feminis…
Teaching, Mentoring, and Research for a Progressive Era: The Legacy of Herb Schiller
Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture
We were shooting on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum one night. It was lit romantically, and Jennifer was wearing an evening gown, looking incredibly stunning. Suddenly there must have been a thousand people screaming her name. It was like witnessing this icon. (Ralph Fiennes in the New York Times, 2002, p. 16, emphasis added) This stamp, honoring a Mexican artist who has transcended "la frontera" and has become and icon to Hispanics, feminis…
Media prosumers. Participatory culture of audiences and media responsibility
The new technologies are paving the way for new forms of people of be themselves, relate, mobilize, learn, and participate. In this context of change facilitated by ICT, we can say that the relationship of individuals with the media and information which has experienced a more significant change, in particular with the emergence of media like the Internet. Against the traditional role of the audience as a passive subject, as receiver of the messa…
(Dis)locating nations in the World Cup: Football Fandom and the Global Geopolitics of Affect
The World Cup, as a tournament that pits national teams against one another, initially seems to be a site where support for sports is tied to nations. However, situating this sporting event at the intersection of discourses of globalization, transnational circulation of capital and populations, and theories of fandom, our examination of diasporic populations found that the choice is not a simple one between ‘origin nation’ and ‘residence nation.’…
Clueless in Hollywood: Single Moms in Contemporary Family Movies
Through an examination of contemporary Hollywood family films, the author explores the construction of the single mother. Suggesting that not even the mythical world of family films can ignore the reality of single-mother-headed households, the author finds a consistent binary categorization of single moms. There is the “good mom,” who became single as a result of death or abandonment. Her reward is either remarriage and/or economic stability. Th…
Stereotype or Transgression: Rosie Perez In Hollywood Film
Through a four-pronged methodology which includes textual analyses of the films, film reviews, and interviews with Rosie Perez as well as possible spectatorship positions to Rosie Perez films, the author examines the construction of Latinas in Hollywood film, especially in regard to traditional ethnic stereotypes. In addition, the author ventures into an understudied area of scholarship—namely the consideration of active audience and Latinas/Lati…
Introduction from the New Editor
It is a great honor to take responsibility for the editorship of this central journal in our field. Communication Theory aims to be inclusive in theory, methodology, and scope within our interdiscipline. Many have written on the contours and boundaries of our field. What some see as fragmentation, others recognize as the potential to engage in truly interdisciplinary and whollistic research projects. While some favor social scientific approaches,…
The uses of culture: Canon formation, postcolonial literature and the multicultural project
This essay directly challenges the easy opposition of the canon to non‐Western and Third World literature and the curricular project of content addition and replacement that now guides mainstream multicultural frameworks. The authors argue that this opposition is illegitimate and that, further, it is not empirically based. Instead, they insist that even a cursory glance at the literature of the Hispanic, African American and Caribbean writers rev…
Feminist Currents in Global Studies
Journal Article Feminist Currents in Global Studies Get access Angharad N. Valdivia Angharad N. Valdivia 1University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 2, June 1995, Pages 194–203, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00737.x Published: 07 February 2006
Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities
Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media breaks new ground by exploring intersecting variables of oppression, from the personal to the political. The multiplicity of voices in this volume illustrates the contradictions inherent in multicultural and feminist perspectives on the media. This volume begins with feminist analyses but uncovers marginalized "others" in every area. These compelling case studies illustrate how issues of gender, race, cla…
Rosie Goes to Hollywood: The Politics of Representation
(1996). Rosie Goes to Hollywood: The Politics of Representation. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 129-141
The uses of culture: Canon formation, postcolonial literature and the multicultural project
This essay directly challenges the easy opposition of the canon to non‐Western and Third World literature and the curricular project of content addition and replacement that now guides mainstream multicultural frameworks. The authors argue that this opposition is illegitimate and that, further, it is not empirically based. Instead, they insist that even a cursory glance at the literature of the Hispanic, African American and Caribbean writers rev…
Measuring the Moment in A Time to Kill: Using the Contemporary South as a Pedagogical Strategy for the Study of Race, Class, and Gender
(1998). Measuring the Moment in A Time to Kill: Using the Contemporary South as a Pedagogical Strategy for the Study of Race, Class, and Gender. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-10
Clueless in Hollywood: Single Moms in Contemporary Family Movies
Through an examination of contemporary Hollywood family films, the author explores the construction of the single mother. Suggesting that not even the mythical world of family films can ignore the reality of single-mother-headed households, the author finds a consistent binary categorization of single moms. There is the “good mom,” who became single as a result of death or abandonment. Her reward is either remarriage and/or economic stability. Th…
Stereotype or Transgression: Rosie Perez In Hollywood Film
Through a four-pronged methodology which includes textual analyses of the films, film reviews, and interviews with Rosie Perez as well as possible spectatorship positions to Rosie Perez films, the author examines the construction of Latinas in Hollywood film, especially in regard to traditional ethnic stereotypes. In addition, the author ventures into an understudied area of scholarship—namely the consideration of active audience and Latinas/Lati…
La vida es loca Latina/o
Teaching, Mentoring, and Research for a Progressive Era: The Legacy of Herb Schiller
Rhythm is Gonna Get You! Teaching Evaluations and the Feminist Multicultural Classroom
Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture
We were shooting on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum one night. It was lit romantically, and Jennifer was wearing an evening gown, looking incredibly stunning. Suddenly there must have been a thousand people screaming her name. It was like witnessing this icon. (Ralph Fiennes in the New York Times, 2002, p. 16, emphasis added) This stamp, honoring a Mexican artist who has transcended "la frontera" and has become and icon to Hispanics, feminis…
Long Live Jim Carey
Long Live Jim Carey
Living in a hybrid material world: Girls, ethnicity and mediated doll products
Drawing on a theoretical framework that combines Media Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Girls Studies with the concept of hybridity, I explore American Girl, Dora the Explorer, and Bratz—three mediated doll lines—as manifestations of an ethnic identity crisis that in turns generates a moral panic that seeks to return whiteness and conventional femininity to its normalized mainstream standing. Issues of production, representation, and reception of m…
Introduction from the New Editor
It is a great honor to take responsibility for the editorship of this central journal in our field. Communication Theory aims to be inclusive in theory, methodology, and scope within our interdiscipline. Many have written on the contours and boundaries of our field. What some see as fragmentation, others recognize as the potential to engage in truly interdisciplinary and whollistic research projects. While some favor social scientific approaches,…
The Gendered Face of Latinidad: Global Circulation of Hybridity
Activating the “I” and Ramifications for International Communication Association Journals and Members
Journal Article Activating the “I” and Ramifications for International Communication Association Journals and Members Get access Angharad N. Valdivia Angharad N. Valdivia 1Institute of Communication Research, University of Illinois at Urbana, IL 61801, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 21, Issue 4, November 2011, Pages 317–322, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01388.x…
Media Studies: The Interdiscipline of the Present and the Future
Mobile Handsets From The Bottom Up: Appropriation And Innovation In The Global South
This chapter provides a general mapping of grassroots practices associated with an alternative mobile handset culture that has emerged from the bottom up in the Global South. The authors highlight the social, economic, and institutional factors – in local as well as transnational contexts – that have contributed to “flexible” handsets and grassroots practices within this alternative model of social innovation. Drawing upon theories of user approp…
Media Studies: Diagnostics Of A Failed Merger
According to Geert Lovink, there is no such thing as a “visual culture” that connects film, television, video, and new media. In this chapter, he argues that this mistaken belief has led to the naïve notion that we are all working on the same project, “the media.” In fact, Lovink argues, humanities‐based “media studies” has never had a grip on new media and Internet education. The idea that media are all about images is contradicted by the realit…
Media Studies: The Interdiscipline of the Present and the Future
Amnesia and the Myth of Discovery: Lessons from Transnational and Women of Color Communication Scholars
Two concepts that do not receive center stage, yet deserve such position, are amnesia and its fraternal twin the myth of discovery. Amnesia is absolutely essential in the current neoliberal regime, within its spaces of exception and at its core. We could not “discover” new media, new audiences, and new markets without forgetting histories of conquest, technology, and financial debacles. Within critical/cultural studies the deployment of these two…
Media prosumers. Participatory culture of audiences and media responsibility
The new technologies are paving the way for new forms of people of be themselves, relate, mobilize, learn, and participate. In this context of change facilitated by ICT, we can say that the relationship of individuals with the media and information which has experienced a more significant change, in particular with the emergence of media like the Internet. Against the traditional role of the audience as a passive subject, as receiver of the messa…
Male is to Female As _____ Is to: A Guided Tour of Five Feminist Frameworks for Communication Studies
Ethnic Studies
This entry provides an overview of the wide‐ranging work deriving from ethnic studies in the heterogeneous discipline of communications. Following a brief definition of ethnic studies, the entry details its presence in all areas of the field—from interpersonal and organizational communications to media studies and its four components: production, content, audiences, and effects. The entry ends with the contemporary turn to hybrid and interracial …
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