The Knight and the Goddess: Television News Mythmaking about Immigrants

Otto Santa Ana, Professor of Chicana/o Studies UCLA

Thursday, March 20, 2014 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
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n addition to numerous articles on the language of US Latin@s, Santa Ana has published two award-winning books on representations of Latin@s in the US news media, and he is currently writing a book on laughter and political humor. At Mason, Santa Ana will present an expansion of "Juan in a Hundred," his analysis of television network news imaging of Latin@s. Specifically, he will report on a narrative analysis of a year's worth of news stories about immigrants, highlighting the dominant story-types and illustrating his findings with video clips of news reports.