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Mary Beltran weaves discussions of Mexican-American and Latina/o representation with those of authorship to produce a compelling and overdue account of how much we truly owe Latina/o creative professionals. Beautifully researched, this book is mandatory reading for scholars of race, media, and representation. * Dolores Ines Casillas, author of <i>Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy</i> * Mary Beltran's archival research recovers a history that is essential to understanding the ways in which television culture is always in conversation with the social, political, and economic context in which it is produced. Her insightful analysis shows us why storytelling is ultimately about access to power and the social status of politically marginalized communities in the United States. * Isabel Molina-Guzman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *

Mary Beltran weaves discussions of Mexican-American and Latina/o representation with those of authorship to produce a compelling and overdue account of how much we truly owe Latina/o creative professionals. Beautifully researched, this book is mandatory reading for scholars of race, media, and representation. * Dolores Ines Casillas, author of <i>Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy</i> * Mary Beltran's archival research recovers a history that is essential to understanding the ways in which television culture is always in conversation with the social, political, and economic context in which it is produced. Her insightful analysis shows us why storytelling is ultimately about access to power and the social status of politically marginalized communities in the United States. * Isabel Molina-Guzman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * Beltran's Latino TV is an essential contribution to the expanding scholarship on Latina/o/x media and is particularly important for the training of its future scholars. * Film Quarterly *

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Mary Beltrán is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film and affiliate of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meaning of Film and TV Stardom and co-editor of Mixed Race Hollywood.

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