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Description & Pricing
The University of Chicago is pleased to announce its second joint area-studies summer workshop to take place at the Gleacher Center. This four-day workshop, Viewing the World through Media and Popular Culture, will explore the ways in which media shape processes of state formation, identity politics and worldwide consumption.
In addition to thematic presentations, participants will engage in roundtable discussions, classroom applications, and cultural enrichment activities. The workshop is a collaborative project of various academic entities, bringing together their best resources in outreach to produce a unique content-driven and interactive professional development opportunity.
The workshop is intended for high school and community college educators. CPDU credits will be available. For further information, please contact Lorraine Patel at lpatel@uchicago.edu or 773-834-3852.
Registration is required, and may be completed by clicking the "register" link to the right. The registration fee for the four-day workshop is $100 prior to June 10. The registration fee includes materials and meals. After June 10, the registration fee is $150. Participants are also welcome to attend individual days for $50; however priority will be given to four-day participants. Limited financial assistance is available for four-day participants.
Please make checks payable to the University of Chicago and mail to:
Summer Workshop, Center for International Studies, 5828 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
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Workshop for Educators
“Viewing the World through Media and Popular Culture”
University of Chicago
June 20 – 23, 2005
University of Chicago, Downtown Chicago Campus
Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago
*All meals provided by Wolfgang Puck Catering
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Monday, June 20, 2005
Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago
Room: Concourse Level Auditorium
8:30 – 9:00pm Registration and Breakfast (provided)
9:00 – 10:00am Welcome and Thematic Workshop Overview - Kathleen Morrison, Director of the Center for International Studies, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, University of Chicago and Marilyn Turkovich, Curriculum Director, Opening of the Heart
10:00 – 10:15am Break
10:15 – 11:15am Middle East: The Media in the Making of a Modern State - Don Wycliff, Chicago Tribune Editor
11:15 – 11:45am Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents: Nawruz (Persian New Year) - Mark David Luce, University of Chicago
11:45 – 12:45pm Lunch (provided)
12:45 – 1:45pm East Asia: The Online Layer: How Text Shapes Social Change - Daniel Menchik, University of Chicago
1:45 – 2:00pm Break & Middle Eastern snack – Baklava
2:00 – 3:00pm Roundtables: Resources, Classroom Application
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Dingding Chen, University of Chicago
- Rasheed Hosein, University of Chicago
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Aaron Rester, University of Chicago
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Marilyn Turkovich, Opening of the Heart
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago
Room: Concourse Level Auditorium
8:30 – 9:00am Breakfast (provided)
9:00 – 10:00am How Foreign Correspondents View the World - Stephen Kinzer, veteran New York Times correspondent and author
10:00 – 10:15am Break & Stephen Kinzer book signing
10:15 – 11:15am Middle East:
Cultures of Use: A Forgotten Factor in Analyses of the New Technologies - Saskia Sassen, Professor, University of Chicago
11:15 – 11:45pm Center for East Asian Studies presents: Anime: Moving Pictures and Pictures of Movement - Michael Raine
11:45 – 12:45pm Lunch (provided)
12:45 – 1:45pm East Asia:
Japaneseness and Cinema : Wartime Propoganda, Postwar Art Films, and Popular Culture around 1960 - Thomas Gunning, Professor, University of Chicago and Michael Raine, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
1:45 – 2:00pm Break & East Asian snack - Mochi
2:00 – 3:00pm Roundtables: Resources, Classroom Application
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Traci L. Lombré, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
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Sarah Neilson, University of Chicago
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Moxie Stoermer, Indiana University
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago
Room: Concourse Level Auditorium
8:30 – 9:00am Breakfast (provided)
9:00 – 10:00am Opening of the Heart - Marilyn Turkovich, Curriculum Director, Opening of the Heart
10:00 – 10:15am Break
10:15 – 11:15am South Asia: Internet X-Ray: Tehelka.com and the Politics of Immediation, William Mazzarella, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
11:15 – 11:45pm South Asia Language and Area Center presents: Traditional Indian Dance
11:45 – 12:45pm Lunch (provided)
12:45 – 1:45pm Latin America: Commodifying Latinidad in Popular Culture - Isabel Molina, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1:45 – 2:00pm Break
2:00 – 3:00pm Roundtables: Resources, Classroom Application
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Jillian Baez, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Susan Harewood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Bulbul Tiwari, University of Chicago
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Marilyn Turkovich, Opening of the Heart
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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago
Room: Concourse Level Auditorium
8:15 – 8:45am Breakfast (provided)
8:45 – 10:30am Voices in War Time - Marilyn Turkovich, Curriculum Director, Opening of the Heart
10:30 – 10:40am Break
10:40 – 11:40am Latin America: Latin America in Hollywood Film: Lessons about our Neighbors - Angharad Valdivia, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign
11:40– 12:10pm Center for Latin American Studies presents: Mariachi Fenix
12:10 – 1:00pm Lunch (provided)
1:00 – 2:00pm South Asia: Matrimonial Advertisements, the Marriage Market, and Gender Politics in India - Rochona Majumdar, Assistant Professor at University of Chicago
1:45 – 2:00pm Break & Latin American snack
2:00 – 3:00pm Closing Remarks:
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Marilyn Turkovich, Curriculum Director, Opening of the Heart
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Irving Birkner, Associate Director, Center for International Studies, University of Chicago
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Lorraine Patel, Area Studies Coordinator, University of Chicago
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 Angharad Valdivia's research combines the areas of gender and feminist studies with ethnic studies. She brings these together in the examination of contemporary mainstream popular culture in an approach that explores the tension between agency and structure. She has conducted field research in Nicaragua, Peru, and Chile. Current research projects include hybridity theory as it applies to Latina/o Studies, ambiguity as a strategy of ethnic representation, and differentiation within Latinidad. She is working on a book length manuscript entitled "The Gender of Latinidad" and several other projects.
Professor Valdivia is the author of A Latina in the Land of Hollywood [Arizona, 2000]and the editor of The Media Studies Companion [Blackwell, 2003]; Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities [Sage: 1995]; the communication and culture section of the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women [2000] and co-editor of Geographies of Latinidad [Duke, 2006]. She has published essays in the Communication Review, Global Media Journal, Journal of Communication, the Journal of International Communication, the Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Inclusive Education, Women and Language, Chasqui, and in many edited anthologies.
Professor Valdivia is an affiliate faculty member with Women and Gender in a Global Perspective and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/icr/faculty/
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Marilyn Turkovich has focused on cultural, multicultural, intercultural, global, experiential and urban-community building/facilitation and education since 1968. Her involvement has led to her conviction that education is most effective when it is connected with an individual's interest, concerns, or reality and when it involves firsthand experience.
Marilyn has developed curriculum, as an instructor of a college-level class on multicultural and global awareness, and as a teacher-educator (at the college/university and continuing education levels) and as an instructional designer for a firm dedicated to organizational development and cultural diversity and human relations training. She has focused her energy on multicultural, international /intercultural education with attention to the basic principles of learning and teaching. Beyond these core professional activities my work has led to participation in educational organizations, community agencies and programs on a variety of levels.
Marilyn is currently the Co-Director of Blakely House Design, Media and Communication in Bainbridge Island, Washington. She is also the President of the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council, Bainbridge Island, Washington, dedicated to bringing the arts to the community.
http://www.openingoftheheart.org/organization/
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 Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her new book is Territory, Authority and Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2005). She has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries. Her most recent books are the edited Global Networks, Linked Cities,( New York and London: Routledge 2002) and the co-edited Socio-Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press 2005). The Global City is out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books are translated into sixteen languages. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and Chair of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). Her comments have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, The International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times, among others.
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Daniel Menchik is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Chicago. His work focuses upon on scientific knowledge, social networks, and the use of digital technologies in medicine. Current research is on doctors’ information-seeking behavior and the influence of scientific findings delivered via electronic networks, examining the correlates of behavioral change. He has begun work on cross-national comparisons of scientific knowledge diffusion, and plans to examine institutional effects upon the application of medical research findings. He is also interested in social theory and linguistic explanations for email-mediated interaction rituals. Daniel received his MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and his BA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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William Mazzarella (PhD, UC Berkeley 2000) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, writes and teaches on mass media, globalization, public culture and consumerism, critical theory, commodity aesthetics, and post-coloniality in contemporary India.
His book, Shoveling Smoke (Duke, 2003), is an ethnography of the Bombay advertising business and its role in the rise and elaboration of mass consumerism in India in the 1980s and 1990s. The book develops a general theory of how the production and circulation of 'commodity images' mediates the local and the global, affect and discourse, image and text.
Mr. Mazzarella is currently working on a series of projects at the intersection of publicity, politics, censorship, and the genealogy of 'the masses'.
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Rochona Majumdar received her PhD in August 2003 from the departments of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Her research interests focus on understanding the cultural and institutional context of women’s agency in South Asia.
Her dissertation, which she is presently revising for submission as a book manuscript, is entitled Marriage, Modernity and Sources of the Self: Bengali Women, c.1870-1956. Here she traces the growth of what was called a “marriage market” among Hindus in late colonial and early postcolonial Bengal.
While conducting her dissertation research she increasingly felt the importance of studying ‘national’ feminism(s) in the context of developments in global/ imperial feminism(s). This insight animates her future project on the history of gynecology in colonial India. Provisionally called Imperial Origins and Nationalist Resolutions: Medicine and Female Sexuality in Colonial India, her focus here will be on the development of a medical gaze and the female body. In tracing the rise of a medical discipline, her aim is to demonstrate how the doctor-patient relationship epitomized a struggle between ideas of ‘national’ sexual propriety on the one hand and sexual conduct proper to a healthy ‘universal’ female citizen subject on the other.
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Presenters
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Thomas Gunning, Professor, Art History & Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
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Mark David Luce, PhD Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
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Rochona Majumdar, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
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William Mazzarella,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, University of Chicago
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Isabel Molina, Research Professor of Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Michael Raine,
Assistant Professor,
East Asian Languages and Civilizations & Cinema and Media Studies
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Angharad Valdivia, Research Professor of Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Roundtable Facilitators
- Jillian Baez, PhD Student, Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Dingding Chen, PhD student, Political Science, University of Chicago
- Traci L. Lombre, Program Assistant, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Sarah Neilson, Oureach Program Coordinator, South Asia Area and Language Center
- Susan Harewood, PhD Student, Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Rasheed Hosein, Director, Public Education Project, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Aaron Rester, PhD student, History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School
- Moxie Stoermer, PhD student, Art Education, Indiana University
- Bulbul Tiwari, PhD Student, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
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 Noel Don Wycliff became public editor of the Chicago Tribune on July 31, 2000. He moved into that position after having served nine years as the Tribune’s editorial page editor. During his tenure as editor, the Tribune editorial page won one Pulitzer Prize, was a finalist for another and took several other major awards as well, including two Distinguished Writing Awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE).
Wycliff came to the Tribune in September 1990 from The New York Times, where he was a member of the editorial board for more than five years and wrote on a wide range of issues, including social policy, education, religion and race relations. Earlier, he had worked as an editor in The Times’ Week in Review section and as a reporter or editor at several other newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Wycliff was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1996, and in 1997 won the ASNE Distinguished Writing Award for editorials. He has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes and currently is chairman of the ASNE Writing Awards Committee. He has been designated chairman of that committee for 2000-2001. He is a member of the ASNE and the National Association of Minority Media Executives, and has been a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. He is a member of several advisory bodies at his alma mater, the University of Notre Dame. He has served as a Cub Scout leader and as a coach and a referee in youth soccer and basketball leagues in Evanston, Ill., where he lives with his wife and two sons.
Wycliff is a Texas native who was educated in Catholic schools in several states. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Government at the University of Notre Dame in 1969. He was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at that time and attended graduate school at the University of Chicago. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1999 by the University of Portland (Ore.).
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/
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Rasheed Hosein is Direc tor of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies' Public Education Program.
Bulbul Tiwari is a PhD student in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her interest focuses on studying Indian epics, particularly in all their non-textual forms: theatre, song, dance, painting, cartoons and movies.
Moxie Stoermer is currently a Ph.D. student in the art education program at Indiana University and working on a dissertation studying how children make comic books. Prior to attending Indiana University, Moxie taught art to students K-12 in a small rural school in Eastern Washington State. Other areas of research include studio art critiques, aesthetics, comic books, and the intersection of popular culture and philosophy.
Aaron Rester is a Ph.D. Student in History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Webmaster at the Center for International Studies. His research interests focus on media and religion (particularly in Bollywood film), Hindu nationalism, and spatiality. He earned a B.A. from with Honors in Comparative Mythology from Oberlin College in 1999, and an M.A. from the Divinity School in 2002.
Sarah Neilson is the Outreach Program Coordinator for the University of Chicago South Asia Center. She received a B.A. in Religion from Bard College where she studied Hindu epic traditions. She also received an M.A. in South Asian Studies from the University of Washington, where she focused on colonial-period urban planning and architecture, and studied Hindi. She came to Chicago from Seattle where she worked for several years in the nonprofit sector, and served on Seattle's Board of Parks Commissioners. She was co-organizer of Seattle's first Independent South Asian Film Festival, and will serve as Humanities Advisor for the festival in September 2005.
Traci Lombré is Project Assistant for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. She received her M.A. degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago in June 2004, where her research interests included Shi'ite Muslim Culture, Arab foreign investment and the impact of globalization on Arab migration. Prior to coming to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Traci performed strategic planning and market analysis of the telecommunication industry as a marketing manager for the Verizon Corporation, held several positions in the financial industry and received A.B. degrees in Economics and Sociology from Smith College. She continues to conduct research on Arab migration and the history of globalization in the Islamic Middle East.
Dingding Chen is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Chicago. His academic interests include international relations theory, foreign policy, human rights and Chinese politics. Mr. Chen is also one of the founders of COSA, or Chinese Outlook Studies Association, at the university.
Michael Raine is Assistant Professor in Japanese Cinema and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His interests include the emergence of “Japanese New Wave,” Japanese Political Modernism, Japanese wartime film culture, and the history of film theory. His publications include Masumura Yasuzo's Giants and Toys in Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (forthcoming) and "Documentary Film as Visual Culture in Wartime Japan" in Looking Modern (forthcoming).
Tom Gunning is a Professor in the Art Department and the Cinema and Media Committee at the University of Chicago. Author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (University of Illinois Press), and the recently published The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Modernity and Vision (BFI), he has written numerous essays on early and international silent cinema, and on the development of later American cinema, in terms of Hollywood genres and directors as well as the avant-garde film. He has lectured around the world and his works have been published in a dozen different languages.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cmtes/cms/
faculty/gunning.html
Susan Harewood is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois. Her dissertation focuses on the construction and performance of identity in Caribbean popular music. Her current research interests include Caribbean popular culture, popular music, cultural studies, globalization, and gender. She is the author of Masquerade performance and the play of sexual identity in the Caribbeanwhich appears in Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies (2005). She has also co-authored Contesting culture: Identity and curriculum dilemmas in the age of globalization, postcolonialism and multiplicity for a special issue on Popular Culture and Education in Harvard Educational Review, and Race Identity and Representation in Education as well as a chapter entitled "Exploring Dora: re-embodied Latinidad on the Web" in the book Girls on the World Wide Web.
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Stephen Kinzer is a veteran New York Times correspondent who has reported from more than fifty countries on four continents. During the 1980s he covered revolution and social upheaval in Central America. In 1990 he was named chief of the Times bureau in Berlin, and spent the next six years covering the emergence of post-Communist Europe. Later Kinzer became the first Times bureau chief in Istanbul. He is coauthor of Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala and author of Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua and Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds. His latest book, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, was published in 2004. Kinzer is currently a New York Times correspondent based in Chicago.
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Jillian M. Baez is currently a second year doctoral student at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include popular culture, transnational feminism, and Latina/o Studies. Ms. Baez is the recipient of several awards including the Ford Predoctoral Fellowship and the Social Science Research Council Predoctoral Grant. She has a bachelor of arts in Media Studies and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies from Hunter College-City University of New York.
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Mark Luce has lived for more than 25 years in the Middle East and Central/South Asia (Libya, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Iran, the United Arab Emirates Pakistan and Jordan).
He holds a B.A. in Classics from William Jewell College (1971), an M.A. in Near Eastern Languages & Literature from U. of Washington (1977), and is currently a Ph.D. student of Islamic thought in the Dept. of NELC, U. of Chicago.
He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghazni, Afghanistan, 1971 – 1973. From 1987 – 1991, he was Deputy Director for the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Programs for Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan. During that period, helped manage many different programs for Afghan refugees in Pakistan and cross-border development projects inside of Afghanistan.
In 1990 he developed the strategy for the U.N.’s mass campaign for Landmine Awareness, to educate Afghans to the dangers of landmines and unexploded ordinance, as they prepared to return to Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal.
He has maintained his contacts with Afghans and Afghanistan and has researched the development of 20th century Afghan education. In 2002, he was asked by the U.N. to be one of 27 International Monitors to observe district and regional level elections for the Emergency Loya Jirga. He worked in Kandahar, Zabul, Uruzagan and Helmand provinces and was then assigned as a technical advisor to the secretariat for the Loya Jirga in Kabul. |
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Isabel Molina's recent research includes a study of national television news coverage surrounding Elian Gonzalez and the interconnection of gender, ethnicity, and race in the mainstream journalistic representation of the Miami Cuban-American community.
