*******New from Duke University Press******* First book to document Puerto Rican TV history reveals prolonged exclusion of blacks from screen TUNING OUT BLACKNESS is a history of Puerto Rican television emphasizing the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in the island's commercial media from the late 1940s to the 1990s. The book's website can be found at http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=8223-3543-3 "This book not only provides a cultural history of 'blackness' in Puerto Rican television, it also locates Puerto Rico as a critical blind spot in both Latin American and U.S. television studies, one that can offer new insights into the televisual representation of race, family, and nation."--Chon Noriega, author of /Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema/ ********************************* For more information, contact Dafina Blacksher Diabate Publicity, Duke University Press [log in to unmask] www.dukeupress.edu <http://www.dukeupress.edu/> ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html