Full Description
From dramas to reality TV to advertising, quinceañeras are familiar across mainstream media in the United States. The celebration event for fifteen-year-old girls has evolved over time and today is immersed in gender politics and consumer culture while speaking to Latina/o/x assertions of culture, belonging, tradition, and assimilation.
Jillian M. Báez, Diana Leon-Boys, and Angharad N. Valdivia edit a collection that draws on the expanding field of girlhood studies to examine the increasing visibility of the event and the figure of the quinceañera herself in pop culture. The contributors focus on quinceañeras as a trope for English-language media's treatment of Latina girlhoods and Latinx cultures but also examine how use of the quinceañera charts deepening openness and inclusivity within Latinx culture.
Timely and thought-provoking, Quinceañeras provides an interdisciplinary exploration of a celebration and its central figure within studies of Latina/o/x identity, race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Contributors: Sonya M. Alemán, Jillian M. Báez, Ariana A. Cano, Dolores Inés Casillas, Mari Castañeda, Michael Anthony DeAnda, Kelly Ferguson, Litzy Galarza, Rachel González-Martin, Jillian Hernandez, Karla Larrañaga, Diana Leon-Boys, Stephanie Melissa Pérez, Angharad N. Valdivia, and Claudia Evans-Zepeda
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Jillian M. Báez, Diana Leon-Boys, Angharad N. Valdivia
PART I: Representations of Quinceañeras in Film and Television
Chapter One: "Remixing Quinceañera Traditions in The Fosters and Superman and Lois: Not Just a Birthday Party"
Sonya M Alemán, Claudia Evans Zepeda, and Mari Castañeda
Chapter Two: "A Plastic Cultural Celebration: The Quinceañera for All Ages"
Diana Leon-Boys
Chapter Three: "The Tragic Denial of Citizenship in On My Block's Quinceañera"
Litzy Galarza
Chapter Four: "Documenting/Documentary Quinces: Transitioning into Joy in Latinx/e Community Storytelling"
Rachel González-Martin
PART II: Consumption and Exhibitions of Quinceañeras
Chapter Five: "Our Dream Quinceañera Exhibit: Foregrounding Joy and Labor in Gendered Ethnic Production"
Angharad N. Valdivia
Chapter Six: "Quinceañera Ontologies: (Mediated) Latine Girlhoods...and Other Stories"
Stephanie Pérez
Chapter Seven: "Challenging Latine/x Myths in Latinx Digital Media Coverage of Quinceañeras"
Jillian M. Báez and Kelly Ferguson
PART III: Transgressive Quinceañeras
Chapter Eight: "Quinceañera Domesticana: Reading Latina Girlhood, Border Politics, and Consumption in Yvette Mayorga's "Really Safe in My Room in America"
Jillian Hernandez
Chapter Nine: "Designing a Quinceañero: The Quince Celebration and Potentials for Critical Hope"
Michael DeAnda
Chapter Ten: "Cincuentañeras on TikTok: Digital Feminist Celebrations of Señoras and 50th Birthdays"
Dolores Inés Casillas and Karla Larrañaga
Chapter Eleven: "Queerness in Quinceañera Dance Performances and
the Engaño Cultural of Quinceañera Spaces"
Ariana Cano
Works Cited
Appendices
Appendix A: Latina Feminist Media Independent Studies
Appendix B: Girlhood Studies Reading List
Appendix C: Brief Latina Feminist Quinceañera Scholarship
Appendix D: Quinceañera Stories Visual Media Filmography
