Resources

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Here are the resources we mention in our Public Service Announcements for the corresponding episode.

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S1E2: Living and Learning in the Pandemic

What to do:

  • Take it seriously
  • Get correct information
  • Get tested
  • Wash your hands and face
  • Wear protective face masks
  • Abide with the 6-12 foot physical distancing
  • Eat healthily
  • Exercise
  • Teach your children, family, friends, coworkers
  • Pass along this information

The following are direct links to resources for the Covid-19 virus. As well, there are links specifically tailored to brown, Latino communities.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

https://covid19.ca.gov/

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/print-resources.html?Sort=Date%3A%3Adesc

https://www.hrsa.gov/opa/COVID-19-resources

https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/covid-19-resources.html

S1E3: Los Compas Stand with Black Lives Matter

Books for: History of Systemic Racism in the United States of America:

Documentaries on Systemic Racism:

S1E4: Brown Hollywood

Books we recommend:

  • The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino in American Cinema The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture by Rosa Linda Fregoso
  • The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media by Maria Elena Cepeda – 2016
  • LatinX Voices: Hispanics in Media in the U.S by Katie Coronado, ‎Erica Kight – 2018
  • MeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands by Rosa-Linda Fregoso
  • Talking #BrownTV: Latinas and Latino on the Screen by Frederick Luis Aldama and William Anthony Nericcio
  • Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing And Making Of A People by Dávila, Arlene
  • Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance (Texas Film and Media Studies Series) by Charles Ramírez Berg
  • Heros, Lover, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood by Clara E. Rodriguez
  • Latino/a Popular Culture edited by Michelle Habell-Pallan and Mary Romero
  • Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom by Mary C. Beltran

Latino Portrayals in the Media (web resource).

Articles:

  • L.A. Times “Latino representation in Hollywood movies is abysmal. Here’s the proof” By SONAIYA KELLEY.
  • A study from USC: “The study found that among 1,200 popular films released between 2007 and 2018 (a sample of the top 100 films per year), just 4.5% of more than 47,000 speaking or named roles went to Latinx actors. Only 3% were lead or co-leads.”
  • “Stereotypical portrayals of the Latinx community also abound. Across 200 films examined, approximately 25% of Latinx speaking characters were depicted as criminals and 17% were portrayed as poor or low income. Thirty-six percent of all Latinx speaking characters and 60% of top-billed Latinx actors were depicted separately from a larger Latinx community, which translates to a lack of cultural artifacts, traditions and other signifiers that might showcase the characters’ ethnicity.”
  • The Guardian –Hollywood basks in diversity praise but Latinos ask: are we invisible? 
  • “The last Hispanic actor to win an Oscar was Penelope Cruz in 2009 for her supporting role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. No Latina has ever won for a leading role, and only one man has done so – José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac in 1951.”
  • Latino representation in film remains limited, despite history of inclusion – Daily Bruin. Friday, July 3, 2020
  • “In February, Alfonso Cuarón was awarded an Academy Award for best achievement in directing for his film “Roma,” which follows the life of a middle class family’s maid in Mexico City.
  • Actress Yalitza Aparicio was the first indigenous actress nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. Additionally, “Roma” was the first Mexican film to win an Academy Award for best foreign language film.”

S1E11: Brown Men in I.T.