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Washington Post: Despite celebrations of Latin crossovers from Desi Arnaz to Gloria Estefan to Bad Bunny, Latin music has continuously been represented as foreign, exotic and distinct from Americanness, LMU Professor Vanessa Díaz and…
USA Today: “It’s a really easy scapegoat to kick the people who are already at the bottom of the entertainment system, who are already disparaged instead of actually dealing with the power structures that…
Women’s Wear Daily: The events underscore larger issues in the media system, said Vanessa Diaz, an associate professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University, who previously freelanced for People magazine. ”Immediately,…
Los Angeles Times: Vanessa Diaz, who teaches a Bad Bunny course at Loyola Marymount University and created a “Bad Bunny Syllabus” with Rivera-Rideau, says the videos show he’s staying true to his roots. “He…
USA Today: In his 2019 music video for “Caro,” Bad Bunny gave a “pointed critique about expectations around gender norms and gender performance,” says Vanessa Díaz, an assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University, where…
Vanessa Diaz, LMU assistant professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, was interviewed about Bad Bunny and his cultural impact for this Spanish-language Univision news program. Source: Univision Al Punto con Jorge Ramos
Vanessa Diaz, the co-creator of the Bad Bunny Syllabus project and a professor at Loyola Marymount University — where she teaches a course titled “Bad Bunny and Resistance in Puerto Rico” — told NBC…
