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Narcomedia: Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs
By (author) Jason Ruiz
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2024 Honorable Mention - The Victor VillaseÑor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award – English, Empowering Latino Futures’ International Latino Book Awards 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 cultural production in the United States. Popular culture, from Scarface and Miami Vice to Narcos and Better Call Saul, has continually positioned Latinos as an alien people who threaten the US body politic with drugs. Jason Ruiz explores the creation and endurance of this trope, its effects on Latin Americans and Latinx people, and its role in the cultural politics of the War on Drugs. Even as the focus of drug anxiety has shifted over the years from cocaine to crack and from methamphetamines to opioids, and even as significant strides have been made in representational politics in many areas of pop culture, Latinx people remain an unshakeable fixture in stories narrating the production, distribution, and sale of narcotics. Narcomedia argues that such representations of Latinx people, regardless of the intentions of their creators, are best understood as a cultural front in the War on Drugs. Latinos and Latin Americans are not actually America’s drug problem, yet many Americans think otherwise-and that is in no small part because popular culture has largely refused to imagine the drug trade any other way.
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Publisher | University of Texas Press
Published date | 10 Oct 2023
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 288
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 399g
ISBN | 978-1-4773-2819-4
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BISAC | social science / ethnic studies / hispanic american studies
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