María Elena Cepeda
Biographic Data
| ID | 640946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Elena Cepeda |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Cepeda |
| SIGNATURE | CEPEDA M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6076-4083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery
Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Walt Disney Records, B09GYH5WK6, 2021, Streaming
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Mentorship, Critical Autoethnography and the Practices of Self-Reflexivity
I explore the topic of mentorship as a powerful form of feminist contestation from within, particularly for students and faculty of color. Inspired by the scholarship of women of color Communications and Media Studies scholars and specifically the literature on critical autoethnography, I argue for a more self-reflexive approach to mentoring rooted in an awareness of the dynamics of power and in-/exclusion embedded in the smallest of everyday exc…
Thrice Unseen, Forever on Borrowed Time
Designed to amplify and archive narratives frequently erased in official accounts of faculty life, this article centers a Latina feminist testimonio approach in its personal examination of mentally disabled faculty members and crip time, or the unique temporalities experienced by disabled individuals and the temporal strategies that they purposefully deploy. The analysis specifically focuses on mentally disabled faculty who are multiply marginali…
Latina feminist moments of recognition
Reimagining US Colombianidades
"Putting a "Good Face on the Nation
Via the discursive analysis of various memes, this essay interrogates the linkages between global Colombianidad and beauty in the #ItsColombiaNOTColumbia (#ICNC) social media campaign, and examines the centrality of Colombians' digital labor in the production and circulation of media texts. It argues that in its efforts to contest the masculinist violence and political corruption permeating global scripts about Colombia, the #ICNC campaign ultima…
Beyond “filling in the gap”
Against the socio-economic and cultural backdrop of the ongoing Latina/o media “boom,” this critical literature review delineates the location and status of contemporary Latina/o Feminist Media Studies. Departing from a critique of current mainstream Feminist Media Studies research and citational practices, it traces the influence of rapidly expanding transnational Latina/o media markets, the gendering of Latinidad, and transnational feminisms on…
Shakira as the Idealized Transnational Citizen
Like many of the spanglish generation, Shakira is a walking, living, breathing, singing contradiction. Born and raised in Colombia, she lived for bands like Led Zeppelin, The Cure, The Police, the Beatles and Nirvana. Rock was her first musical love, but her Arabic culture was her life .... Despite the fact that she was once named the queen of the Barranquilla carnival and was crowned by Colombian salsa great Joe Arroyo, Shakira is above all a ro…
Popular Culture and Youth Latinidades
Media and the Musical Imagination
In May 2006, United States residents were witness to the largest pro-immigrant cross-country protests in the nation's history. During the apex of the pro-immigrant demonstrations, the single “Nuestro Himno,” a Spanish-language paraphrasing of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was released. Both the “Nuestro Himno” recording and the demonstrations constituted important symbolic gestures toward the (re)claiming of U.S. public space and the contested mean…
When Latina hips make/mark history
As a Lebanese-origin native of the Colombian Caribbean, singer/songwriter Shakira's self-description as a combination of “quibbe crudo and plátano frito” (“raw quibbe and fried plantain”) neatly reflects the trans-cultural aesthetic recipe upon which her artistic identity and media persona are based.1 1. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are the author's. Emphasizing the role of sexuality and movement in Shakira's recordings, music videos,…
Latino/a Popular Culture
Shakira as the Idealized, Transnational Citizen
"Columbus Effect(s)"
As Cultural Studies scholar George Lipsitz well notes, the triumvirate forces of technology, globalization, and the subsequent migration of individuals from south to north have transformed cities like Los Angeles and Miami into global, as opposed to national or regional, centers. In terms of population, in Miami-Dade County Latinos comprise nearly 50 percent of area residents, with blacks representing almost 20 percent; however, in recent years, …
Mucho loco for Ricky Martin; or the politics of chronology, crossover, and language within the Latin(o) Music “Boom” 1
(2000). Mucho loco for Ricky Martin; or the politics of chronology, crossover, and language within the Latin(o) Music “Boom”. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 24, Global Popular Music: The Politics and Aesthetics of Language Choice, pp. 55-71
Mucho loco for Ricky Martin; or the politics of chronology, crossover, and language within the Latin(o) Music “Boom” 1
(2000). Mucho loco for Ricky Martin; or the politics of chronology, crossover, and language within the Latin(o) Music “Boom”. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 24, Global Popular Music: The Politics and Aesthetics of Language Choice, pp. 55-71
Shakira as the Idealized, Transnational Citizen
Thrice Unseen, Forever on Borrowed Time
Designed to amplify and archive narratives frequently erased in official accounts of faculty life, this article centers a Latina feminist testimonio approach in its personal examination of mentally disabled faculty members and crip time, or the unique temporalities experienced by disabled individuals and the temporal strategies that they purposefully deploy. The analysis specifically focuses on mentally disabled faculty who are multiply marginali…
Beyond “filling in the gap”
Against the socio-economic and cultural backdrop of the ongoing Latina/o media “boom,” this critical literature review delineates the location and status of contemporary Latina/o Feminist Media Studies. Departing from a critique of current mainstream Feminist Media Studies research and citational practices, it traces the influence of rapidly expanding transnational Latina/o media markets, the gendering of Latinidad, and transnational feminisms on…
Mentorship, Critical Autoethnography and the Practices of Self-Reflexivity
I explore the topic of mentorship as a powerful form of feminist contestation from within, particularly for students and faculty of color. Inspired by the scholarship of women of color Communications and Media Studies scholars and specifically the literature on critical autoethnography, I argue for a more self-reflexive approach to mentoring rooted in an awareness of the dynamics of power and in-/exclusion embedded in the smallest of everyday exc…
"Putting a "Good Face on the Nation
Via the discursive analysis of various memes, this essay interrogates the linkages between global Colombianidad and beauty in the #ItsColombiaNOTColumbia (#ICNC) social media campaign, and examines the centrality of Colombians' digital labor in the production and circulation of media texts. It argues that in its efforts to contest the masculinist violence and political corruption permeating global scripts about Colombia, the #ICNC campaign ultima…
Latina feminist moments of recognition
Latino/a Popular Culture
Mucho loco for Ricky Martin; or the politics of chronology, crossover, and language within the Latin(o) Music “Boom” 1
(2000). Mucho loco for Ricky Martin; or the politics of chronology, crossover, and language within the Latin(o) Music “Boom”. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 24, Global Popular Music: The Politics and Aesthetics of Language Choice, pp. 55-71
"Columbus Effect(s)"
As Cultural Studies scholar George Lipsitz well notes, the triumvirate forces of technology, globalization, and the subsequent migration of individuals from south to north have transformed cities like Los Angeles and Miami into global, as opposed to national or regional, centers. In terms of population, in Miami-Dade County Latinos comprise nearly 50 percent of area residents, with blacks representing almost 20 percent; however, in recent years, …
Shakira as the Idealized, Transnational Citizen
Latino/a Popular Culture
When Latina hips make/mark history
As a Lebanese-origin native of the Colombian Caribbean, singer/songwriter Shakira's self-description as a combination of “quibbe crudo and plátano frito” (“raw quibbe and fried plantain”) neatly reflects the trans-cultural aesthetic recipe upon which her artistic identity and media persona are based.1 1. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are the author's. Emphasizing the role of sexuality and movement in Shakira's recordings, music videos,…
Popular Culture and Youth Latinidades
Media and the Musical Imagination
In May 2006, United States residents were witness to the largest pro-immigrant cross-country protests in the nation's history. During the apex of the pro-immigrant demonstrations, the single “Nuestro Himno,” a Spanish-language paraphrasing of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was released. Both the “Nuestro Himno” recording and the demonstrations constituted important symbolic gestures toward the (re)claiming of U.S. public space and the contested mean…
Shakira as the Idealized Transnational Citizen
Like many of the spanglish generation, Shakira is a walking, living, breathing, singing contradiction. Born and raised in Colombia, she lived for bands like Led Zeppelin, The Cure, The Police, the Beatles and Nirvana. Rock was her first musical love, but her Arabic culture was her life .... Despite the fact that she was once named the queen of the Barranquilla carnival and was crowned by Colombian salsa great Joe Arroyo, Shakira is above all a ro…
Beyond “filling in the gap”
Against the socio-economic and cultural backdrop of the ongoing Latina/o media “boom,” this critical literature review delineates the location and status of contemporary Latina/o Feminist Media Studies. Departing from a critique of current mainstream Feminist Media Studies research and citational practices, it traces the influence of rapidly expanding transnational Latina/o media markets, the gendering of Latinidad, and transnational feminisms on…
"Putting a "Good Face on the Nation
Via the discursive analysis of various memes, this essay interrogates the linkages between global Colombianidad and beauty in the #ItsColombiaNOTColumbia (#ICNC) social media campaign, and examines the centrality of Colombians' digital labor in the production and circulation of media texts. It argues that in its efforts to contest the masculinist violence and political corruption permeating global scripts about Colombia, the #ICNC campaign ultima…
Latina feminist moments of recognition
Reimagining US Colombianidades
Mentorship, Critical Autoethnography and the Practices of Self-Reflexivity
I explore the topic of mentorship as a powerful form of feminist contestation from within, particularly for students and faculty of color. Inspired by the scholarship of women of color Communications and Media Studies scholars and specifically the literature on critical autoethnography, I argue for a more self-reflexive approach to mentoring rooted in an awareness of the dynamics of power and in-/exclusion embedded in the smallest of everyday exc…
Thrice Unseen, Forever on Borrowed Time
Designed to amplify and archive narratives frequently erased in official accounts of faculty life, this article centers a Latina feminist testimonio approach in its personal examination of mentally disabled faculty members and crip time, or the unique temporalities experienced by disabled individuals and the temporal strategies that they purposefully deploy. The analysis specifically focuses on mentally disabled faculty who are multiply marginali…
Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Walt Disney Records, B09GYH5WK6, 2021, Streaming
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery
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