Latin America is an ethnically and racially diverse region, and this diversity is made visible through the multiplicity of cultural expressions and different ways of living of its citizens. However, the Latin American societies were influenced by hegemonic racial ideologies that created social structures and diminished the way in which indigenous populations in Afro-descendant populations are represented in recognized in the region.
One of the mechanisms through which racial ideologies manifest and reproduce is the media, which over the decades have served as a space for the reproduction of images and representations about ethnic and racial diversity and ethnic populations several. In spite of this, there are few specialized studies in the
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The second group of sources includes the article "The Loads of Representation: Notes on Race and Representation in Latin American Cinema," and the book Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture. Both sources provide an interdisciplinary analysis that relies on Media and Critical Cultural studies to focus on the representation of race and ethnicity in the Latin American popular media.
Finally, the third group of sources contains the articles “Hacia una apertura del debate sobre el racismo en Venezuela: exclusión e inclusión estereotipada de personas ‘negras’ en los medios de comunicación” and "(Re)presentaciones, estereotipos, ausencias y presencias manifiestas de la cuestión afrocolombiana en medios locales, regionales y nacionales", and the book Mira cómo ves: racismo y estereotipos étnicos en los medios de comunicación. These materials are focus specifically on the matter of representation of Afro-descendants in and the reproduction of ethnic stereotypes in the Latin American