Three faces of eva: Perpetuation of the hot-latina stereotype in desperate housewives

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 133-151

  Merskin, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation theory; Ethnic disparity; Latina; Stereotypes; Television; Tropicalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247571352     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646170701309890     Document Type: Article

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