ABSTRACT
As the scholarship in this volume attests, Latina/os are actively educating the way people in the U.S. hear, taste, see, smell, touch, think, and feel. To varying degrees of complexity, as creative agents or subjects of created cultural phenomena, Latina/os appear in all variety of today’s pop culture: TV (web and otherwise), film, animation, comic books, video games, art, slam poetry, music, food, sartorial wear, and so much more. In this whirlwind of pop culture making and consuming, one way or another, the scholarship that makes up this volume asks: how are the different pop cultural formats being created representing-or more accurately, distilling then reconstructing-the many complex ways we exist and identify as Latina/os in the U.S.?
