Raising a star

Black motherhood and the politics of whiteness in the Colombian telenovela, La mamá del 10

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ID10192680
AuthorsMarcelo Carosi (0000-0003-2637-3625, Hamilton College Clinton New York USA, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume56
Issue5-6
Pages874-884
Publication date2023-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Popular Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3840 • E-ISSN: 1540-5931
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jpcu.13287
OpenAlexW4388601034
LanguageEN
References cited11

This study explores the representation of Blackness in the telenovela La mamá del 10 , revealing it as ambiguous but largely depoliticized. Herein, soccer presents a “sanitized” way of being Black when hard work and high‐performance sports are used to frame nonwhite populations within white values that manage to save a young man from repeating his Black father's mistakes. In addition, the mall is examined in relation to racial democracy. La mamá del 10 emphasizes the importance of the mall as a place where Blackness meets social advancement at the expense of kinship and community

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