Browsing by Subject "Latino identity"

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    Media, labels and pan-Latino identity : a case study on Latino USA
    (2007-05) Achilles, Jenny Elizabeth, 1980-; Poindexter, Paula Maurie
    The present study employed a case study of the public radio program Latino USA to examine the interaction among audience members and the media in the current salience of pan-ethnic Latino identities. Through examining archived program records, interviews, transcribed listener calls and program content, the study observed five characteristics of Latino identity: Latino identity as inherited, personal, situational, layered and interactional. As a result, the study concludes that the media may play the strongest role in identity negotiation with audience members when informing non-Latinos of Latino issues. The strength of ties to collective identity formation or promotion among Latinos based on pan-ethnic media programming was not universally accepted. However, the majority of sources in the study found Latino public radio programming important, for both Latinos and non-Latinos.
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    Museum culture and identity ownership : the shifting role of museums and their exhibitions in the 21st century
    (2009-12) Fernandez, Anita Larraine; Dietz, Henry; Villescas, Joseph
    This project examines, critiques and develops the role museums play in shaping and maintaining consciousness and identity within US and Mexican society. Key to this investigation are the ideals of what traditionally constitutes a museum and who determines what messages are conveyed and who has the opportunity to experience and receive the messages. Ultimately museums have an incredible impact on and responsibility towards the communities they serve and their role as communicators of social and cultural messages cannot be ignored. Museums are the spaces in which communal consciousness is not only created but also preserved. The museum should educate, engage and enlighten as well as connect communities. The development of a new progressive museum model is necessary to achieve and uphold these tenants. This project conducts a comparative analysis of Museos Comunitarios (Community Museums) in Oaxaca, Mexico and the Museo Alameda in the United States, focusing on the mission and founding principals as well as exhibition choice and institutional operating mechanisms. This analysis will forecast how these institutions and exhibitions impact the trajectory of the communities they encounter and outline the new role of the museum in the 21st century.