Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture

The general reader opening this encyclopedia for the first time may well be forgiven for thinking that “Latino popular culture” is a phrase of recent origin describing the growing dominance of today's cinema, popular music, art and literature, by actors, singers and writers of Latino or Hispanic origin. As the country which has fostered this popular culture phenomenon the USA must, however, also take responsibility for playing down the Latino origins of many of its star Latinos in the past. Readers of the encyclopedia may be surprised to discover that one of the twentieth century's screen goddesses, Rita Hayworth, was...