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"""This excellent work researches an oft-marginalized segment of society whose influence on pop culture cannot be underestimated. Each chapter also includes helpful additional reading and viewing suggestions.Highly recommended.""--Y. Fuentes, Nova Southeastern University, CHOICE ""Boffone and Herrera have written a compelling, witty, and entertaining book of scholarship that places Latinx teens at the center of a critical conversation about representation, power, and popular culture. Latinx Teens brings together the mainstream and the margins as it considers a range of stories about Latinx teens in all their complex identities and why they matter. Reading it feels like spending time with smart friends talking about the latest book, TV show, movie, or play; the critical points are shaped by sophisticated concepts, but they recede into the background, allowing us to focus the critical pleasures of the texts at hand.""--Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson, co-editor of The Un/making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics ""The broad coverage in Latinx Teens of Latinx teenagers' mediation in film, television, literature, and theatre makes it a great resource for scholars writing about mainstream representation, cultural citizenship, and coming-of-age narratives through an interdisciplinary, Latinx studies lens. With each case study, Boffone and Herrera convincingly underscore Latinx teen perspectives to be a persistent gap in the scholarship associated with that medium and mobilize a call to action that scholars from various disciplines address this area further in their own research.""--Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero, Chasqui"

"""This excellent work researches an oft-marginalized segment of society whose influence on pop culture cannot be underestimated. Each chapter also includes helpful additional reading and viewing suggestions.Highly recommended.""--Y. Fuentes, Nova Southeastern University, CHOICE ""Boffone and Herrera have written a compelling, witty, and entertaining book of scholarship that places Latinx teens at the center of a critical conversation about representation, power, and popular culture. Latinx Teens brings together the mainstream and the margins as it considers a range of stories about Latinx teens in all their complex identities and why they matter. Reading it feels like spending time with smart friends talking about the latest book, TV show, movie, or play; the critical points are shaped by sophisticated concepts, but they recede into the background, allowing us to focus the critical pleasures of the texts at hand.""--Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson, co-editor of The Un/making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics"

Boffone and Herrera have written a compelling, witty, and entertaining book of scholarship that places Latinx teens at the center of a critical conversation about representation, power, and popular culture. Latinx Teens brings together the mainstream and the margins as it considers a range of stories about Latinx teens in all their complex identities and why they matter. Reading it feels like spending time with smart friends talking about the latest book, TV show, movie, or play; the critical points are shaped by sophisticated concepts, but they recede into the background, allowing us to focus the critical pleasures of the texts at hand. --Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson, co-editor of The Un/making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics

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Trevor Boffone is a lecturer in the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. He is the author of Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok. Cristina Herrera is director of Chicano and Latino Studies at Portland State University, where she is a professor. She is the author of ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy.

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