{"title":"Raising a star: Black motherhood and the politics of whiteness in the Colombian telenovela, La mamá del 10","authors":"Marcelo Carosi","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13287","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores the representation of Blackness in the telenovela <i>La mamá del 10</i>, revealing it as ambiguous but largely depoliticized. Herein, soccer presents a “sanitized” way of being Black when hard work and high-performance sports are used to frame nonwhite populations within white values that manage to save a young man from repeating his Black father's mistakes. In addition, the mall is examined in relation to racial democracy. <i>La mamá del 10</i> emphasizes the importance of the mall as a place where Blackness meets social advancement at the expense of kinship and community.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Popular Culture","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.13287","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study explores the representation of Blackness in the telenovela La mamá del 10, revealing it as ambiguous but largely depoliticized. Herein, soccer presents a “sanitized” way of being Black when hard work and high-performance sports are used to frame nonwhite populations within white values that manage to save a young man from repeating his Black father's mistakes. In addition, the mall is examined in relation to racial democracy. La mamá del 10 emphasizes the importance of the mall as a place where Blackness meets social advancement at the expense of kinship and community.
本研究探讨了电视连续剧《La mamá del 10》中的黑人形象,揭示了黑人形象的模糊性,但在很大程度上是去政治化的。在这里,足球呈现了一种 "净化 "的黑人方式,勤奋工作和高水平的体育运动被用来将非白人人口框定在白人价值观中,从而设法拯救一个年轻人,使他免于重蹈黑人父亲的覆辙。此外,影片还从种族民主的角度对商场进行了审视。La mamá del 10》强调了商场的重要性,它是黑人与社会进步相遇的地方,但却牺牲了亲情和社区。
期刊介绍:
The popular culture movement was founded on the principle that the perspectives and experiences of common folk offer compelling insights into the social world. The fabric of human social life is not merely the art deemed worthy to hang in museums, the books that have won literary prizes or been named "classics," or the religious and social ceremonies carried out by societies" elite. The Journal of Popular Culture continues to break down the barriers between so-called "low" and "high" culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.