Feminista Frequencies: Community Building Through Radio in the Yakima Valley

by Mónica de la Torre

Book Overview

How Chicana and Chicano community radio strengthened a movement and transformed the airwaves

Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural areas, radio emerged as the most effective medium for reaching relatively isolated communities such as migrant farmworkers. And in Washington's Yakima...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295749660
• ISBN13: 9780295749662
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher