More Than Tortillas: The Transgressive Possibilities of the Chicano-centric Party of Five Reboot in a Racially Dissonant Television Landscape

Sonya M. Alemán is associate professor in the Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and Mexican American Studies Program at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She studies mainstream media representations of communities of color, alternative media content produced by communities of color, and manifestations of race, racism, and whiteness in the media. She is published in Critical Studies in Media Communication; Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies; Review of Research in Education; Race, Ethnicity, and Education; and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.

Jillian M. Báez is associate professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her research interests lie in Latina/x media, Jungian approaches to media studies, and issues of belonging and citizenship. Báez is the author of In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship (University of Illinois Press, 2018), recipient of the National Communication Association’s Bonnie Ritter Award for Outstanding Feminist Book.