Narcomedia : : Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs / / Jason Ruiz.

Exploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America's long and ineffectual War on Drugs. If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is people of color. That is the lesson of forty years of cu...

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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Latinx: The Future Is Now
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 20 b&w photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy"
  • Chapter 2. Miami Vices
  • Chapter 3. "The Most Alive Dead Man in the World"
  • Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge
  • Chapter 5. Dark Matter
  • Chapter 6. Bad Hombres
  • Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity
  • Epilogue. "It's Time for a White Man to Leave the Building"
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Select Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index