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Author: Keara Goin / FLOW Staff

Still Looking For the Great Latino Family Comedy: ABC Tries Again with Cristela
Jason Ruiz / University of Notre Dame

January 27, 2015 Keara Goin / FLOW Staff 2 comments

Latino audiences still cannot claim a Cosby of our own, despite the increased visibility of Latino characters on network and cable television and the meteoric rise of Eva Longoria and then Sofia Vergara in recent years. ABC seems to hope that Cristela Alonzo, a Tejana comedienne, is the TV star to fill this niche.

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Defending Dexter
Dawn Keetley / Lehigh University

October 7, 2013 Keara Goin / FLOW Staff 3 comments

Showtime’s Dexter has taken some criticism over the last few years, but its recent final episode stays true to what has been great about the series

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The Others on Bravo: The Entertainment Value of the Eccentric Ethnic Character
Keara Goin / University of Texas at Austin

September 23, 2013 Keara Goin / FLOW Staff Leave a comment

The Bravo network’s programming as a whole seems to use the eccentric ethnic character as a formulaic strategy to enhance a show’s entertainment value

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Flow Favorites: Seeing in Spanish: The Nat King Cole Show
Herman Gray / University of California in Santa Cruz

June 3, 2013 Keara Goin / FLOW Staff Leave a comment

David Murray’s reinterpretation of Nat King Cole prompts me to rehear The Nat King Cole Show, especially in the context of black televisual presence in today’s digital platforms.

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Faux Gender and the New Popularity of Drag Culture
Keara Goin / FLOW Senior Editor

August 27, 2012 Keara Goin / FLOW Staff One comment

RuPaul’s DragU, while rejecting normative and essentialist gender roles, exposes an “ideal” femininity that is framed in notions of masculinity and leaves us with only the charades of faux gender.

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Act your Race, Not your Age: Performativity and the Many Faces of Comic-Con Cosplay
Keara Goin / FLOW Senior Editor

July 29, 2012 Keara Goin / FLOW Staff 4 comments

“Race matters” in the realm of stepping into a cosplay character.

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Dragging Dominicaness: Saturday Night Live and the Creation of a Performative Drag of Latinidad
Keara Goin / FLOW Staff

July 21, 2011 Keara Goin / FLOW Staff 2 comments

Considering the representations and constructions of Dominican identity on Saturday Night Live.

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