In this research I examine the coverage of US Latino news by the North Carolina-based Raleigh News and Observer to bring to light the latent construction of Latinos and their current affairs. Drawing on feminist and postcolonial theorizing, I argue that the coverage genders Latino news as feminine and (re)produces the stereotype of Latinos as an underclass of peons. The study combines content and textual analyses to look at four years of coverage (1992-1995). At the heart of the analysis are the workings of the techniques, which I call newsroom processes of genderization, that enable the newspaper to operate as a technology of gender, race, and class.
Vargas, L. (2000).
Genderizing Latino news: an analysis of a local newspaper's coverage of Latino current affairs.
Critical Studies in Media Communication 17(3), 261-293.
This essay was featured in Spectra, Vol. 36, No. 9, p. 14 (Sept. 2000).
Spectra is a publication of the National Communication Association.
See PDF file of the September 2000 issue of Spectra (go to page 14)
at the National Communication Association website.
Vargas, L. (2001).
Genderising Latino news. Rhodes Journalism Review 20, 50-51.
This is a journalistic version of the same research.
You may see it at the Rhodes Journalism review website.
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