Burst Your Bubble

A podcast about -isms and -phobias in pop culture.

Filtering by Tag: anti-Latinx

EP64 - I Love Lucy: The All American Girl and "The Latin"

September 12, 2019  /  Morgan Jaffe

EP64 - I Love Lucy starred Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. Arnaz was Cuban American, and so the real life married couple was the first interracial couple on television at a time when the typical TV family was suburban, middle class, and white; in the real world there were anti-miscegenation laws, immigration quotas, and xenophobia. On one hand I Love Lucy created more representation in the media, but on the other the show certainly had its problems.

Art by Jeremy Ferris.

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categories / anti-immigration, anti-miscegenation, racism, TV, whitewashing, colorism
tags / I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, anti-Cuban, sitcom, anti-Latinx

EP47 - Modern Family, Sofia Vergara, and the Influence of Carmen Miranda

December 27, 2018  /  Morgan Jaffe

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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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categories / TV, anti-immigration, exoticism, racism, sexual objectification, xenophobia
tags / Modern Family, Sofia Vergara, The "Spicy" Latina, anti-Colombion, anti-Latinx, Carmen Miranda, The Good Neighbor Policy

EP36 - Scarface and the Mariel Boatlift

June 27, 2018  /  Morgan Jaffe

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Whether you have or haven't seen the 1983 film Scarface, you'll agree it has its place in pop culture. It's referenced in film, TV, and music; you might know lines from the movie ("Say hello to my little friend!"), and may have seen the infamous movie poster on a college dorm wall or two. But let's talk about how the film, which premiered only three years after the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, showed all Cuban political refugees as criminals.

Art by Jeremy Ferris.

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categories / anti-immigration, film, racism, xenophobia
tags / Scarface, The Mariel Boatlift, anti-Cuban, anti-Latinx

EP25 - Ay Yi Yi Yi, the (Racist) Frito Bandito

January 10, 2018  /  Morgan Jaffe

On today's episode, let's talk about -isms, -phobias, and one of your favorite bags of chips.

Art by Jeremy Ferris.

New episodes released the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.

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categories / racism, ads, cartoon, anti-immigration, xenophobia
tags / The Frito Bandito, food, Lays, corn chips, anti-Latinx, anti-Mexican

EP17 - Latin America in Good Neighbor Films

September 13, 2017  /  Morgan Jaffe

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For this episode, we're going to talk about U.S. foreign policy and how it shaped Hollywood's representation of Latin America in the 1940s, creating films full of racism, whitewashing, exoticism, and sexual objectification.

Art by Jeremy Ferris.

New episodes released the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month.

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categories / xenophobia, racism, political cartoons, colonialism, whitewashing, exoticism, sexual objectification, film
tags / The "Spicy" Latina, The Good Neighbor Policy, Carmen Miranda, Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, anti-Latinx