Burst Your Bubble
Burst Your Bubble
Morgan Jaffe
Modern Family, Sofia Vergara, and the Influence of Carmen Miranda
29 minutes Posted Dec 27, 2018 at 8:01 am.
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EP47 - The term "spicy Latina" has dominated Latinx representations in pop culture since the 1940s. Today we have Modern Family and Sofia Vergara, where she is a Colombian playing a Colombian. But is Vergara a positive representation of Latinx culture, and furthermore is it fair to ask her to be?

Art by Jeremy Ferris.

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