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Tuning out blacness in Puerto Rico TV,
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This review is from: Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television (Console-ing Passions) (Paperback)
An excellent book dealing with taboo subject for many people. The author examines carefully the beginnings as well as the factors that contributed to racism in Puerto Rico TV and that could be said for most of latinamerican countries, a sad heritage from the same people who gave us TV and at the same time the seeds for the hated discrimination and a clear example was Amos n' Andy TV shows that took racism to the highest level that started with the movie "Birth of a nation".We are deeply indebted to the author for this study and for letting us be aware of this malady that still persists more in our TV and less in american TV. It looks like our TV's czars were ready to embrace racism from the beginning and still that embrace is solid. Have you ever seen, for example, Colombia's TV through their main chains Caracol and RCN? Their anchors are white, blond youg women, the kind you see in the beauty pageants and the population itself is mostly a mix of indian, black and white. By all means, buy this book and you'll learn a lot and take conscience of those who are feeding racism to our tv and maybe be selective and what you see and let's express our disagreement with those programs |
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Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television (Console-ing Passions) by Yeidy M. Rivero (Paperback - July 6, 2005)
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