The work of beauty—in disciplining bodies, imagining nations, driving globalized commodity
networks, and fostering booming tourist industries, for example, is a vibrant area of research …

In Search of Belonging explores the ways Latina/o audiences in general, and women in
particular, make sense of and engage both mainstream and Spanish-language media …

In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the
American Century, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study of images—photographs …

Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed
nationalities—MexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and others—an important part of Chicago's …

Latinx women face a myriad of unique pressures to meet unrealistic standards of beauty that
are not captured in the dominant, Eurocentric framework of beauty and body image in the …

This study investigated (1) ethnic group differences in body dissatisfaction (BD) among
specific Latina subgroups,(2) acculturative stress as a mediator between ethnic group and …

This study engaged the relatively new method of on-line survey methodology to address a
few key questions about perceptions of racism in Puerto Rico. The questions addressed …

If, according to turn-of-the-twentieth-century observers, black Puerto Ricans were destined to
become racially white in a few generations, how did 12.4 per cent of the population manage …

Although there has been an increased focus on ethnic diversity in eating-disorder and body-
image research, a gap exists in body image programs specifically designed for Latine …

Racial passing is and is not, simultaneously, significant in a social account for how race is
lived in Puerto Rico. The practice of passing for “white” appears to be so culturally …