Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom

Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom Book Cover

"Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous."

Rutgers University Press, 208 pages

 

Author
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Publication
2010