Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom

by Priscilla Pena Ovalle

Book Overview

Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous. Yet some Latina actresses became stars by embracing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813548810
• ISBN13: 9780813548814
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"