The Center for the Humanities and the Hemispheric Studies Research Groupin association with The Cuban Heritage Collection of The University of Miami Libraries
invite you to a lecture by
Yeidy Rivero
Screen Arts and Cultures; American Culture
University of Michigan
All in the Cuban American/Sit-Com Family:
'¿Que Pasa, U.S.A? (1975-1980)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010
Reception: 4:00 p.m.
Lecture: 5:00 p.m.
Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion
Richter Library, 2nd Floor
1300 Memorial Drive
University of Miami
305.284.4900
Sponsored by:
The Program in American Studies; The Joseph Carter Memorial Fund of
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures; The School of Communication
Open to the Public
Free of Charge
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Yeidy Rivero is an Associate Professor in the Departments of American Culture, and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan. Her work examines how national and transnational cultural identities are constructed and negotiated through media discourses about race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender. Author of Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television (Duke University Press, 2005), Rivero’s current research explores the ways in which television in 1950s Cuba was utilized as a commercial-national medium to rearticulate discourses of modernity.
invite you to a lecture by
Yeidy Rivero
Screen Arts and Cultures; American Culture
University of Michigan
All in the Cuban American/Sit-Com Family:
'¿Que Pasa, U.S.A? (1975-1980)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010
Reception: 4:00 p.m.
Lecture: 5:00 p.m.
Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion
Richter Library, 2nd Floor
1300 Memorial Drive
University of Miami
305.284.4900
Sponsored by:
The Program in American Studies; The Joseph Carter Memorial Fund of
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures; The School of Communication
Open to the Public
Free of Charge
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¿Qué Pasa, USA? is America's first bilingual situation comedy. The program explores the trials and tribulations faced by the Peña family of Miami as they struggle to cope with a new country and a new language. The series focuses on the identity crisis of the members of the family as they are pulled in one direction by their elders - who want to maintain Cuban values and traditions - and pulled in other directions by the pressures of living in a predominantly Anglo society.
Yeidy Rivero is an Associate Professor in the Departments of American Culture, and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan. Her work examines how national and transnational cultural identities are constructed and negotiated through media discourses about race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender. Author of Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television (Duke University Press, 2005), Rivero’s current research explores the ways in which television in 1950s Cuba was utilized as a commercial-national medium to rearticulate discourses of modernity.
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