“Next month, Steven Spielberg will release a 'remake' of West Side Story. Instead of anticipation, I can’t help but feel a sense of dread about a production that has framed the Puerto Rican experience for more than 60 years.”
, even though it is the latter group that gropes and attempts to assault Anita. This racialized treatment is deeply embedded in U.S. film history. The gang, the criminal, the rogue, the dangerous male are ubiquitous Black and Latino representations, starting with Hollywood’salso upholds Hollywood’s sexist framing of women as either chaste virgin, projected by Maria, or the colorful sexpot in the character of Anita.,” we do hear authentic references to lived experience.
The mass migration of hundreds of thousands of Anita’s, Maria’s and Bernardo’s was a planned strategy for the absorption of displaced workers. The U.S. economic model, known asin Puerto Rico, could only succeed if the “excess” population was pushed out the island. Many of our parents landed in factories and farms throughout the states to perform exploited labor under arduous conditions.
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