“They Are?!”  

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Serrato, Phillip

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies vol. 9 no. 2 (Apr. 2009), page 149-165.
Topik: Latino identity; Latinos on television; children’s television
Fulltext: 03. ‘They Are’ - Latino Difference vis-à-vis Dragon Tales.pdf (132.53KB)

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This article examines the ways that the animated children’s program Dragon Tales wavers between deracinating its lead characters, Emmy and Max, and exoticizing the racialized difference that Enrique, a recent addition to the program, embodies. The analysis begins with the contention that the effacement of Latinos’ physical, cultural, and linguistic differences vis-à-vis the representation of Emmy and Max constitutes an understandable strategy for neutralizing the otherness of Latinos but actually undermines multiculturalism because it fails to nurture children’s ability to live fearlessly with and within difference. The program is further problematized through the argument that the crafting of Enrique only reinscribes the otherness of Latinos. With the effacement of Latino difference on one hand and the exoticization of Latino difference on the other, Dragon Tales ends up an example of a program unable to model and nurture a healthy accommodation of difference

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